烤
kǎo HSK5

bake, roast

烤 kǎo
to roast verb
to roast, grill, bake, or toast; to dry something by placing it near a heat source

我烤了个蛋糕。

wǒ kǎo le ge dàn​gāo.

I baked a cake.

烤约8分钟，或直到鱼很容易剥落并煮熟。

kǎo yuē8 fēn​zhōng, huò zhí​dào yú hěn róng​yì bō​luò bìng zhǔ shú.

Bake for about 8 minutes, or until the fish flakes easily and is cooked through.

to warm oneself
to warm oneself or a part of the body by being near a fire or other heat source

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Frequency
Character
Written text
2,629th most common 16.1 per million
Movie subtitles
1,346th most common 55.1 per million appears in 21% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
49.7 per million appears in 15% of films
Written text
22.7 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 4
HSK 3.0
Level 5
Strokes
10
Unicode
U+70E4

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