罩
zhào HSK7

basket for catching fish

罩 zhào
cover noun
a cover, shade, or hood; a screen or protective casing used to shield an object
to cover verb
to cover; to spread over; to wrap around something from above

一片阴影突然罩在她的头顶。

yī​piàn yīn​yǐng tū​rán zhào zài tā de tóu​dǐng.

A shadow suddenly fell over her head.

to trap
to catch fish or poultry using a bamboo cage or coop
trap
a bamboo basket used for catching fish or keeping chickens
smock
(bound form) an outer garment, such as a smock or overalls, worn over other clothing
to protect
(Taiwan colloquial) to have someone's back; to look after or protect someone
awesome
(Taiwan colloquial) impressive; capable; having everything under control; often used in the pattern 罩得住 zhào​de​zhù
surname
a Chinese surname

Frequency
Character
Written text
1,978th most common 37.8 per million
Movie subtitles
1,807th most common 26.9 per million appears in 12% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
11.6 per million appears in 4% of films
Written text
12.6 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 6
HSK 3.0
Level 7
Strokes
13
Unicode
U+7F69

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