浇
jiāo HSK7

spray

浇 (澆) jiāo
water verb
to irrigate land or pour water on plants

他每天早上都会去花园里浇花。

tā měi tiān zǎo​shang dōu huì qù huā​yuán lǐ jiāo huā.

He waters the flowers in the garden every morning.

cast verb
to pour molten metal into a mold; to mold

工人小心地把铁水浇进模具里。

gōng​rén xiǎo​xīn de bǎ tiě​shuǐ jiāo jìn mú​jù lǐ.

The worker carefully poured molten iron into the mold.

pour verb
to pour or douse with liquid

他被大雨浇成了一个落汤鸡。

tā bèi dà​yǔ jiāo chéng le yī gè luò​tāng​jī.

He was drenched like a drowned rat by the heavy rain.

Frequency
Character
Written text
2,866th most common 11.7 per million
Movie subtitles
2,562nd most common 7.69 per million appears in 4% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
6.44 per million appears in 3% of films
Written text
10.5 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 5
HSK 3.0
Level 7
Traditional
澆
Strokes
9
Unicode
U+6D47

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