貼
tiē HSK4

to paste

贴 (貼) tiē
stick verb
to stick, paste, or post (e.g. on a wall or a blog)

他在墙上贴了一张海报。

tā zài qiáng shàng tiē le yī zhāng hǎi​bào.

He put up a poster on the wall.

keep close verb
to stay close to or fit snugly against something

这双袜子穿起来特别贴脚，很舒服。

zhè shuāng wà​zi chuān qi​lai tè​bié tiē jiǎo, hěn shū​fu.

These socks fit very snugly and are very comfortable.

classifier measure word
classifier for sticking plasters, strips, or doses of traditional medicine

我买了一贴膏药。

wǒ mǎi le yī tiē gāo​yao.

I bought a medicated plaster.

subsidize verb
to provide a financial subsidy or allowance

公司每个月贴他五百元房租。

gōng​sī měi gè yuè tiē tā wǔ​bǎi yuán fáng​zū.

The company subsidizes five hundred yuan of his rent every month.

Cross-References

Has variant

Frequency
Character
Written text
1,454th most common 76.9 per million
Movie subtitles
1,452nd most common 47.3 per million appears in 24% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
32.4 per million appears in 13% of films
Written text
78.4 per million

Details
HSK 3.0
Level 4
Simplified
贴
Strokes
12
Unicode
U+8CBC

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