耗
hào HSK6

consume

耗 hào
consume verb
to consume, spend, or waste resources such as time, energy, or money

刚才那场激烈的球赛耗了他不少体力。

gāng​cái nà chǎng jī​liè de qiú​sài hào le tā bù​shǎo tǐ​lì.

That intense ball game just now drained a lot of his physical strength.

delay verb
to delay, dawdle, or stall for time

再这么耗下去，我们就赶不上火车了。

zài zhè​me hào xià​qù, wǒ​men jiù gǎn​bù​shàng huǒ​chē le.

If we keep wasting time like this, we'll miss the train.

news verb
news, information, or tidings

至今杳无音耗。

zhì​jīn yǎo​wú yīn hào.

There has been no news whatsoever to this day.

Cross-References

Has variant

Frequency
Character
Written text
1,730th most common 51.7 per million
Movie subtitles
2,067th most common 17.4 per million appears in 9% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
5.48 per million appears in 3% of films
Written text
14.1 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 6
HSK 3.0
Level 6
Strokes
10
Unicode
U+8017

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