肇
zhào HSK7

begin

肇 zhào
variant 肈
to cause nounverb
(bound form) to cause; to trigger or provoke trouble, often used in 肇事 zhào​shì or 肇祸 zhào​huò
to start
(bound form) to start; to initiate; to originate
Zhao
a Chinese surname

Frequency
Character
Written text
3,206th most common 7.64 per million
Movie subtitles
3,080th most common 3.05 per million appears in 1% of films
Word
Written text
3.46 per million

Details
HSK 3.0
Level 7
Strokes
14
Unicode
U+8087

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