料
liào HSK4

ingredients

料 liào
material noun
raw material; stuff; substances such as grain, feed, or fertilizer

让蛋糕吸收釉料。

ràng dàn​gāo xī​shōu yòu liào.

Allow the cake to absorb the glaze.

to expect verbadjective
to expect; to anticipate; to guess or foresee
data noun
material for study or use; data; information; source material for creative works
to manage verbnoun
(bound form) to take care of; to manage; to handle
potential noun
a person's aptitude or potential for a certain role; the right stuff

他天生就是跳舞的料。

tā tiān​shēng jiù​shì tiào​wǔ de liào.

He was born to dance.

有时候我觉得自己就不是做工人的料。

yǒu shí​hou wǒ jué​de zì​jǐ jiù bù​shì zuò gōng rén de liào.

Sometimes I think I'm just not cut out to be a worker.

glassware
(bound form) a glass-like material used for making handicrafts or imitation jewelry
[unit for medicine or lumber]
measure word used for a full dose of traditional Chinese medicine or for specific dimensions of lumber
fee
fee; charge; cost
to throw away
(archaic) to discard; to throw away; to drop
to count
(archaic) to count; to census; to estimate quantity

Cross-References

Same as

Frequency
Character
Written text
557th most common 376.1 per million
Movie subtitles
714th most common 182.0 per million appears in 59% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
22.7 per million appears in 10% of films
Written text
54.9 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 3
HSK 3.0
Level 4
Strokes
10
Unicode
U+6599

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