该
gāi HSK2

should

该 該 gāi
should auxiliary
should; ought to; to be supposed to; to be likely to

让我把该做的事做完。

ràng wǒ bǎ gāi zuò de shì zuò wán.

Let me finish what I have to do.

游戏，就该只是游戏。

yóu​xì, jiù gāi zhǐ​shì yóu​xì.

A game should just be a game.

the said determiner
this; that; the aforementioned; the said (referring to person or thing previously mentioned)

他后来因个人原因离开了该组。

tā hòu​lái yīn gè​rén yuán​yīn lí kāi le gāi zǔ.

He later left the group for personal reasons.

该地区似乎也很安全。

gāi dì​qū sì​hū yě hěn ān​quán.

The area also seems to be very safe.

to be someone's turn auxiliary
to be someone's turn to do something; to be one's duty

现在该我来救你了。

xiàn​zài gāi wǒ lái jiù nǐ le.

Now it's my turn to save you.

to deserve verb
to deserve; to serve someone right; to be destined
to owe
to owe (money or a debt)
to include
(literary) (bound form) to contain; to involve; to cover; to possess
surname
a Chinese surname

Cross-References

Same as

Frequency
Character
Written text
319th most common 703.1 per million
Movie subtitles
95th most common 1721.6 per million appears in 100% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
1018.6 per million appears in 94% of films
Written text
830.7 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 3
HSK 3.0
Level 2
Traditional
該
Strokes
8
Unicode
U+8BE5

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