料
liào HSK4

ingredients

料 liào
expect verb
to expect, anticipate, or guess

我早料到事情会这样。

wǒ zǎo liào dào shì​qing huì zhè​yàng.

I expected things to turn out this way.

material noun
material, substance, or stuff used to make things

这件衣服的料很不错。

zhè jiàn yī​fu de liào hěn bù​cuò.

The material of this garment is very good.

feed noun
grain or fodder used as animal feed

别忘了给马喂料。

bié wàng le gěi mǎ wèi liào.

Don't forget to feed the horses.

material/talent noun
refers to a person's aptitude, capability, or potential for a specific role or task, often used in negative contexts to indicate lack of suitability.

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