擦
cā HSK4

wipe

擦 cā
to wipe verb
to wipe; to clean or erase by rubbing; to polish

擦擦你的眼睛。

cā cā nǐ de yǎn​jing.

Wipe your eyes.

她是不是已经在给你擦勋章了？

tā shì​bu​shì yǐ​jing zài gěi nǐ cā xūn​zhāng le?

Is she polishing your medals already?

to apply verb
to put on or spread a liquid or cream, such as medicine, lotion, or lipstick

你之前已经给我擦过防晒霜了。

nǐ zhī​qián yǐ​jing gěi wǒ cā guo fáng​shài​shuāng le.

You already put the sunscreen on me earlier.

to rub noun
to rub; to scrape or scratch; to chafe
to brush past verb
to shave; to graze; to pass very close to or touch lightly while moving
eraser noun
an object used for wiping or erasing, such as a blackboard eraser
to shred
to shred or grate vegetables into silk-like strips using a grater
to approach
to be close to a certain time, especially dusk
brush stroke
a rubbing brush stroke used in Chinese traditional painting

Frequency
Character
Written text
1,761st most common 49.3 per million
Movie subtitles
1,439th most common 48.3 per million appears in 23% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
43.7 per million appears in 15% of films
Written text
60.7 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 4
HSK 3.0
Level 4
Strokes
17
Unicode
U+64E6

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