皂
zào HSK7

soap

皂 zào
soap noun
Cleansing agent such as bar soap or laundry soap.
black
(bound form) Black; dark in color.
yamen runner
(bound form) An attendant or low-ranking official in a government office in old China, so named because they typically wore black uniforms.
honey locust
(bound form) Short for the honey locust tree, or its pods used as a traditional soap substitute.

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Frequency
Character
Written text
3,087th most common 8.74 per million
Movie subtitles
2,442nd most common 9.35 per million appears in 5% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
0.330 per million appears in 0% of films
Written text
3.58 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 5
HSK 3.0
Level 7
Strokes
7
Unicode
U+7682

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