掠
lüè HSK7

rob

掠 lüè
plunder verb
to take over by force, rob, or pillage

海盗洗劫了村庄，掠走了大量金银珠宝。

hǎi​dào xǐ​jié le cūn​zhuāng, lüè zǒu le dà​liàng jīn​yín zhū​bǎo.

Pirates sacked the village and looted a large amount of gold, silver, and jewelry.

skim verb
to brush over, sweep past, or lightly touch a surface while moving

蜻蜓低飞，轻掠水面，泛起阵阵涟漪。

qīng​tíng dī​fēi, qīng lüè shuǐ​miàn, fàn​qǐ zhèn zhèn lián​yī.

Dragonflies fly low, skimming the surface of the water and creating ripples.

Frequency
Character
Written text
1,868th most common 43.1 per million
Movie subtitles
2,667th most common 6.23 per million appears in 3% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
2.21 per million appears in 1% of films
Written text
6.96 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 6
HSK 3.0
Level 7
Strokes
11
Unicode
U+63A0

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