揉
róu HSK7

rub

揉 róu
to rub verb
to rub or massage with the hands; to scrub repeatedly with the hands

她揉了揉她的眼睛。

tā róu le róu tā de yǎn​jing.

She rubbed her eyes.

当你把双手揉在一起时会发生什么？

dāng nǐ bǎ shuāng​shǒu róu zài​yī​qǐ shí huì fā​shēng shén​me?

What happens when you rub your hands together?

to knead or crumple verb
to knead, roll, or crumple something with the hands, such as dough, clay, or paper

她把那封信揉成一团扔进了火里。

tā bǎ nà fēng xìn róu chéng yī​tuán rēng jìn le huǒ li.

She crumpled the letter up into a ball and threw it on the fire.

to bend
(literary) to bend or shape wood through heat or force

Cross-References

Same as

Frequency
Character
Written text
2,818th most common 12.5 per million
Movie subtitles
3,030th most common 3.35 per million appears in 2% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
4.17 per million appears in 1% of films
Written text
10.2 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 6
HSK 3.0
Level 7
Strokes
12
Unicode
U+63C9

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