苛
kē HSK7

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苛 kē
severe noun
harsh, oppressive, or cruel, especially in the context of laws, taxes, or governance

苛政猛于虎。

kē zhèng měng yú hǔ.

Tyranny is fiercer than a tiger.

exacting verb
making excessive or unreasonable demands; being overly fastidious or nitpicking

他在日常生活的细节上总是过分苛求。

tā zài rì​cháng shēng​huó de xì​jié shàng zǒng​shì guò​fèn kē​qiú.

He is always overly demanding about the details of daily life.

Frequency
Character
Written text
3,095th most common 8.68 per million
Movie subtitles
2,728th most common 5.74 per million appears in 4% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
1.46 per million appears in 1% of films
Written text
1.96 per million

Details
HSK 3.0
Level 7
Strokes
8
Unicode
U+82DB

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