臥 Definitions — Dong Chinese Dictionary

wò HSK7

lie down

卧 (臥) wò

lie verb: to lie down or be in a horizontal, reclining position; 他累得直接在客厅的沙发上卧了下来。

tā lèi de zhíjiē zài kètīng de shāfā shàng wò le xiàlai.

He was so tired that he just lay down on the sofa in the living room.

crouch verb: to crouch, sit, or rest in a low position, often describing animals; 那只狗卧在大门口。

nà zhī gǒu wò zài dàmén kǒu.

The dog is lying at the main gate.

Frequency

Character

Written text: 6,463rd most common 0.160 per million

Word

Movie subtitles: 2.98 per million appears in 1% of films
Written text: 34.5 per million

Details

HSK 3.0: Level 7
Strokes: 8
Unicode: U+81E5

Sources

Definitions: CC-CEDICT
Frequency data: MTSU Chinese text computing BCC Corpus (BLCU)