树 Definitions — Dong Chinese Dictionary

shù HSK1

tree

树 (樹) shù

tree noun: a woody perennial plant typically having a single stem or trunk and growing to a considerable height; 公园里种了很多树。

gōngyuán lǐ zhòng le hěnduō shù.

Many trees are planted in the park.

cultivate idiom: to nurture, foster, or educate talent or people; 十年树木，百年树人。

shí nián shù mù, bǎiniánshùrén.

It takes ten years to grow a tree, but a hundred years to cultivate a person.

establish verb: to erect, set up, or establish something (such as a reputation or an enemy); 这位老师在学生面前树了一个好榜样。

zhè wèi lǎoshī zài xuésheng miànqián shù le yī gè hǎo bǎngyàng.

The teacher set a good example for the students.

Cross-References

Classifier

棵 kē

Frequency

Character

Written text: 697th most common 279.3 per million
Movie subtitles: 995th most common 105.1 per million appears in 31% of films

Word

Movie subtitles: 64.1 per million appears in 16% of films
Written text: 81.3 per million

Details

HSK 2.0: Level 3
HSK 3.0: Level 1
Traditional: 樹
Strokes: 9
Unicode: U+6811

Sources

Definitions: CC-CEDICT
Frequency data: MTSU Chinese text computing SUBTLEX-CH BCC Corpus (BLCU)