腐
fǔ HSK4

rotten, decay

腐 fǔ
corrupt verb
morally decayed, socially stagnant, or intellectually outmoded

我们要坚决打击这种贪腐的行为。

wǒ​men yào jiān​jué dǎ​jī zhè​zhǒng tān fǔ de xíng​wéi.

We must resolutely crack down on such corrupt behavior.

rot verb
to decompose, spoil, or become putrid physically

堆在地上的那些烂红薯都发腐了。

duī zài dì shàng de nà​xiē làn hóng​shǔ dōu fā fǔ le.

The rotten sweet potatoes piled on the ground have started to decay.

Frequency
Character
Written text
1,576th most common 63.4 per million
Movie subtitles
1,831st most common 25.8 per million appears in 12% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
1.31 per million appears in 1% of films
Written text
11.7 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 5
HSK 3.0
Level 4
Strokes
14
Unicode
U+8150

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