灸
jiǔ HSK7

cauterize with moxa

灸 jiǔ
moxibustion noun
To treat with moxibustion, a traditional Chinese medical therapy involving the burning of moxa herbs near acupuncture points
cauterize
To burn the skin, either as a medical treatment or historically as a punishment or marking

Frequency
Character
Written text
4,024th most common 2.93 per million
Movie subtitles
3,386th most common 1.77 per million appears in 1% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
0.060 per million appears in 0% of films
Written text
3.15 per million

Details
HSK 3.0
Level 7
Strokes
7
Unicode
U+7078

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