捂
wǔwú HSK7

resist

捂 wǔ frequency
variant 摀
to cover verb
to cover tightly with the hand or a cloth; to seal; to muffle; to cover up a secret or an affair

为什么你要捂嘴？

wèi​shén​me nǐ yào wǔ zuǐ?

Why are you covering your mouth?

捂 wǔ
to meet face-to-face
(literary) to encounter; to receive or handle something face-to-face
to contradict
(literary) to conflict with; to be at odds with or contrary to
捂 wú
[component]
(bound form) used in the word 支吾 zhī​wú, meaning to speak evasively or hesitate

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Frequency
Character
Written text
3,092nd most common 8.72 per million
Movie subtitles
3,307th most common 2.05 per million appears in 1% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
1.55 per million appears in 1% of films
Written text
14.2 per million

Details
HSK 3.0
Level 7
Strokes
10
Unicode
U+6342

Sources
Frequency data
MTSU Chinese text computingSUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)