楚
chǔ HSK2

clear

楚 chǔ
clear adjective
(bound form) clear; distinct; neat; orderly; as in 清楚 qīng​chu

你们的任务就是分清楚哪个是哪个。

nǐ​men de rèn​wu jiù​shì fēn qīng chǔ nǎ​ge shì nǎ​ge.

Your job is to know which is which.

suffering noun
(bound form) suffering; pain; distress; as in 苦楚 kǔ​chǔ
Chu State
the Chu Kingdom, a powerful state during the Spring and Autumn and Warring States periods (c. 1030–223 BC)
Hubei and Hunan
a region or province, referring to the modern Hubei and Hunan area; often used as an abbreviation for Hubei province
shrub
(literary) a deciduous bush used in Chinese medicine, also known as Chaste tree; historically used as a cane for punishment
Chu
a Chinese surname
to flog
(literary) to beat; to flog; to birch

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Frequency
Character
Written text
859th most common 205.9 per million
Movie subtitles
615th most common 228.1 per million appears in 69% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
6.23 per million appears in 2% of films
Written text
20.4 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 3
HSK 3.0
Level 2
Strokes
13
Unicode
U+695A

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