毒
dúDú HSK5

poison

毒 dú frequency
poison adjective
a toxic substance or narcotic drug

他因为吸毒而毁了前途。

tā yīn​wèi xī dú ér huǐ le qián​tú.

He ruined his future because of drug use.

malicious adjective
cruel, fierce, or spiteful in nature or intensity

你这话也说得太毒了。

nǐ zhè huà yě shuō de tài dú le.

What you said was far too venomous.

毒 Dú
place name verb
a historical place name or toponymic element, referring to the locality 㐖毒 Xié​dú mentioned in ancient Chinese texts

古籍中常提到㐖毒这个地方。

gǔ​jí zhōng cháng tí​dào xié Dú zhè gè dì​fang.

Ancient texts often mention a place called Shedu.

Frequency
Character
Written text
947th most common 178.4 per million
Movie subtitles
545th most common 257.4 per million appears in 47% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
41.3 per million appears in 12% of films
Written text
63.9 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 5
HSK 3.0
Level 5
Strokes
9
Unicode
U+6BD2

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