虐
nüè HSK7

cruel

虐 nüè
brutal adjective
cruel, oppressive, or harsh treatment or behavior

那个残暴的统治者推行极其残虐的统治。

nà gè cán​bào de tǒng​zhì zhě tuī​xíng jí​qí cán nüè de tǒng​zhì.

That brutal ruler implemented an extremely tyrannical reign.

disaster verb
a literary term for a calamity or catastrophe

天降其虐，百姓深受其苦。

tiān jiàng qí nüè, bǎi​xìng shēn shòu qí kǔ.

Heaven sent down calamities, and the people suffered greatly.

Frequency
Character
Written text
2,665th most common 15.4 per million
Movie subtitles
1,967th most common 20.4 per million appears in 9% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
5.93 per million appears in 2% of films
Written text
15.7 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 6
HSK 3.0
Level 7
Strokes
9
Unicode
U+8650

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