摘
zhāi HSK5

pluck, pick

摘 zhāi
pick verb
to pick (flowers, fruit, etc.), pluck, or remove (glasses, hat, etc.)

他从树上摘了一个苹果。

tā cóng shù shàng zhāi le yī gè píng​guǒ.

He picked an apple from the tree.

borrow verb
to borrow money at a time of urgent need

他东摘西借才凑够了这笔医药费。

tā dōng zhāi xī jiè cái còu​gòu le zhè bǐ yī​yào​fèi.

He managed to scrape together enough money for the medical bills by borrowing from various sources.

select verb
to select or pick out specific items or passages

老师从文章中摘了几段话。

lǎo​shī cóng wén​zhāng zhōng zhāi le jǐ duàn huà.

The teacher excerpted several passages from the article.

Frequency
Character
Written text
2,026th most common 35.4 per million
Movie subtitles
2,118th most common 16.0 per million appears in 9% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
14.4 per million appears in 6% of films
Written text
16.0 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 5
HSK 3.0
Level 5
Strokes
14
Unicode
U+6458

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