逗
dòu HSK7

tease, stay

逗 dòu
tease verb
to tease playfully or entice

别逗他了，他都快哭了。

bié dòu tā le, tā dōu kuài kū le.

Stop teasing him; he's about to cry.

funny verb
to joke; funny or amusing

你讲的笑话真逗。

nǐ jiǎng de xiào​hua zhēn dòu.

The joke you told is really funny.

stay verb
to stay or sojourn at a place

他在杭州稍作逗留，打算顺便去游览西湖。

tā zài Háng​zhōu shāo zuò dòu liú, dǎ​suàn shùn​biàn qù yóu​lǎn Xī​hú.

He stayed in Hangzhou for a short while, planning to visit West Lake while he was there.

pause verb
a brief pause at the end of a phrase (variant of 读 dòu)

读书时要注意句和逗的区别。

dú​shū shí yào zhù​yì jù hé dòu de qū​bié.

When reading, one should distinguish between a full stop and a comma-like pause.

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