逗
dòu HSK7

tease, stay

逗 dòu
to tease verb
to tease or play with; to entice; to provoke a reaction from someone

我就是逗逗他。

wǒ jiù​shì dòu dòu tā.

I was just teasing him.

to stay verbnoun
(bound form) to stay; to linger; to stop moving forward
pause noun
(bound form) a slight pause in reading or a comma in a sentence; also written as 读 dòu
funny
amusing; funny; ridiculous; used colloquially to describe something that makes people laugh
to joke
to joke around or pull someone's leg; often used to tell someone to stop being silly or to get serious
surname Dou
a Chinese surname

Cross-References

Same as

Frequency
Character
Written text
2,587th most common 16.9 per million
Movie subtitles
1,869th most common 24.5 per million appears in 14% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
20.9 per million appears in 9% of films
Written text
15.2 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 5
HSK 3.0
Level 7
Strokes
10
Unicode
U+9017

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