朝
cháozhāo HSK3

dynasty

朝 cháo frequency
toward preposition
facing; toward; in the direction of

你的房子朝哪个方向？

nǐ de fáng​zi cháo nǎ​ge fāng​xiàng?

Which way does your house face?

所有的窗户都朝南。

suǒ​yǒu de chuāng​hu dōu cháo nán.

All the windows face South.

to have an audience nounverb
to have an audience with a monarch; to make a pilgrimage to a holy site
North Korea proper nounnoun
abbreviation for 朝鲜 cháo​xiǎn
dynasty
imperial or royal court; government; a dynasty or the reign of a particular ruler
surname
a Chinese surname
朝 zhāo
day adverb
day; a period of 24 hours
morning noun
morning; early morning

科学不是朝九晚五的工作。

kē​xué bù​shì zhāo jiǔ wǎn wǔ de gōng​zuò.

Science isn't a nine-to-five job.

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Frequency
Character
Written text
593rd most common 353.4 per million
Movie subtitles
1,156th most common 77.5 per million appears in 32% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
72.6 per million appears in 25% of films
Written text
91.4 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 5
HSK 3.0
Level 3
Strokes
12
Unicode
U+671D

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