沟
gōu HSK5

ditch, ravine

沟 溝 gōu
ditch verbnoun
ditch; gutter; trench; channel for irrigation or drainage
groove
groove; furrow; rut; any long and narrow shallow depression
ravine
gully; ravine; valley or low land between mountains
to dig out
(literary) to dig a ditch; to dredge; to clear a watercourse
defensive trench
trench or ditch dug for defensive purposes, such as a moat or communication trench

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Frequency
Character
Written text
1,610th most common 60.6 per million
Movie subtitles
1,986th most common 19.8 per million appears in 11% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
5.72 per million appears in 2% of films
Written text
22.5 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 5
HSK 3.0
Level 5
Traditional
溝
Strokes
7
Unicode
U+6C9F

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