灰
huī HSK5

ashes

灰 huī
gray adjective
the color between black and white; ash-colored
dust noun
fine particles of dirt or powder

我一直在扫地、擦灰、拖地。

wǒ yī​zhí zài sǎo dì, cā huī, tuō dì.

I've been sweeping and dusting, mopping.

ash nounproper noun
the powder left after something has burned, such as coal or wood
pessimistic verbadjective
to be discouraged, dejected, or disheartened
lime
lime; mortar
to burn
to burn to ashes; to incinerate
to pulverize
(literary) to crush; to smash into pieces

Frequency
Character
Written text
1,311th most common 94.6 per million
Movie subtitles
1,468th most common 45.7 per million appears in 20% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
19.7 per million appears in 6% of films
Written text
49.1 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 5
HSK 3.0
Level 5
Strokes
6
Unicode
U+7070

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