曹
cáoCáo

plaintiff and defendant

曹 cáo frequency
department noun
a government department or administrative office in ancient China

唐朝政府的行政机构中下设六曹，分管不同事务。

Táng​cháo zhèng​fǔ de xíng​zhèng jī​gòu zhōng xià​shè liù cáo, fēn​guǎn bù​tóng shì​wù.

The administrative structure of the Tang Dynasty government included six departments in charge of different affairs.

litigants noun
the plaintiff and defendant in a legal case

狱吏传唤两曹入堂受审。

yù​lì chuán​huàn liǎng cáo rù táng shòu​shěn.

The jailer summoned both parties to the courtroom for trial.

class proper name
a group of people, class, grade, or generation

尔曹在此吵闹，成何体统！

ěr​cáo zài cǐ chǎo​nào, chéng hé tǐ​tǒng!

You lot are making such a noise here, where is your sense of decorum!

曹 Cáo
Cao place name
a Chinese surname

曹操是东汉末年的著名政治家。

Cáo cāo shì Dōng​hàn mò​nián de zhù​míng zhèng​zhì​jiā.

Cao Cao was a famous statesman at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty.

vassal state place name
a vassal state during the Zhou Dynasty

曹国是周代的一个诸侯国，后来被宋国兼并。

Cáo​guó shì Zhōu​dài de yī gè zhū​hóu​guó, hòu​lái bèi Sòng​guó jiān​bìng.

Cao was a vassal state during the Zhou Dynasty, later annexed by the State of Song.

Frequency
Character
Written text
1,570th most common 64.3 per million
Movie subtitles
2,698th most common 6.06 per million appears in 2% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
3.85 per million appears in 1% of films
Written text
13.1 per million

Details
Strokes
11
Unicode
U+66F9

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