照
zhào HSK2

shine

照 zhào
to look after verb
to take care of; to look after; to keep an eye on
photograph noun
(bound form) photograph; picture; photo

许多结婚照都是在这里拍的。

xǔ​duō jié​hūn zhào dōu shì zài zhè​lǐ pāi de.

Many wedding pictures are taken here.

license noun
(bound form) license; permit; certificate
to take a photo verb
to take a photograph; to film or shoot a picture

这张照片在哪儿照的？

zhè zhāng zhào​piàn zài nǎ​r zhào de?

Where was this picture taken?

according to preposition
according to; in accordance with; to act following a certain pattern or standard

照他说的去做！

zhào tā shuō de qù zuò!

Do as he says!

没有任何事情会照你预计的那样发生。

méi​yǒu rèn​hé shì​qing huì zhào nǐ yù​jì de nà​yàng fā​shēng.

Nothing happens exactly as you expected.

to shine verb
to shine; to illuminate; to light up

能把灯照在他脖子上吗？

néng bǎ dēng zhào zài tā bó​zi shang ma?

Can you shine the light on his neck?

to reflect verb
to reflect; to mirror; to look at one's own reflection in a mirror or water

让我们来照照镜子。

ràng wǒ​men lái zhào zhào jìng​zi.

Let's look in the mirror.

to compare nounverb
(bound form) to compare; to contrast; to check against
towards
towards; facing; directed at
to notify
(bound form) to notify; to inform; to communicate
sunlight
(literary) sunlight; a glow or reflection from the sun
surname Zhao
a Chinese surname
to understand
(bound form) to understand; to be aware of; to know

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Frequency
Character
Written text
443rd most common 491.0 per million
Movie subtitles
310th most common 517.8 per million appears in 83% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
107.8 per million appears in 34% of films
Written text
90.3 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 3
HSK 3.0
Level 2
Strokes
13
Unicode
U+7167

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