捣
dǎo HSK7

hull

捣 (搗) dǎo
attack verb
to strike at or demolish an enemy position

我们要直捣敌人的大本营。

wǒ​men yào zhí dǎo dí​rén de dà​běn​yíng.

We will strike directly at the enemy's base.

disturb verb
to cause trouble, harass, or stir up mischief

他在那里瞎捣，结果把电脑弄坏了。

tā zài nà​li xiā dǎo, jié​guǒ bǎ diàn​nǎo nòng​huài le.

He was messing around and ended up breaking the computer.

pound verb
to beat, crush, or hull with a pestle or tool

奶奶在石臼里捣药。

nǎi​nai zài shí​jiù lǐ dǎo yào.

Grandmother is pounding medicine in a stone mortar.

stir verb
to poke or stir with a stick or similar object

他拿棍子在水里乱捣。

tā ná gùn​zi zài shuǐ lǐ luàn dǎo.

He poked around in the water with a stick.

Frequency
Character
Written text
2,723rd most common 14.2 per million
Movie subtitles
2,158th most common 15.0 per million appears in 9% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
2.83 per million appears in 1% of films
Written text
6.28 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 6
HSK 3.0
Level 7
Traditional
搗
Strokes
10
Unicode
U+6363

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