躲
duǒ HSK5

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躲 duǒ
hide verb
to conceal oneself from view or discovery

他躲在树后，没让人发现。

tā duǒ zài shù hòu, méi ràng rén fā​xiàn.

He hid behind a tree without being discovered.

avoid verb
to evade or stay away from someone or something

既然不想见他，你就尽量躲着他吧。

jì​rán bù xiǎng jiàn tā, nǐ jiù jǐn​liàng duǒ zhe tā ba.

Since you don't want to see him, try your best to avoid him.

dodge verb
to move quickly out of the way of something

他敏捷地躲开了飞来的球。

tā mǐn​jié de duǒ kāi le fēi​lái de qiú.

He nimbly dodged the flying ball.

Frequency
Character
Written text
1,644th most common 57.9 per million
Movie subtitles
1,164th most common 76.5 per million appears in 33% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
78.5 per million appears in 27% of films
Written text
32.9 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 5
HSK 3.0
Level 5
Strokes
13
Unicode
U+8EB2

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