茶
chá HSK1

tea

茶 chá
tea noun
the tea plant (Camellia sinensis); processed tea leaves or a drink made from them

我喜欢茶胜过咖啡。

wǒ xǐ​huan chá shèng guo kā​fēi.

I prefer tea to coffee.

beverage
any of various liquid or paste-like food drinks resembling tea
tea-colored
light brown or brownish yellow like concentrated tea
oil-tea camellia
(bound form) the oil-tea camellia or the common camellia tree
surname
a Chinese surname

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Frequency
Character
Written text
1,272nd most common 100.3 per million
Movie subtitles
1,477th most common 44.6 per million appears in 17% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
37.1 per million appears in 12% of films
Written text
73.5 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 1
HSK 3.0
Level 1
Strokes
9
Unicode
U+8336

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