酷
kù HSK6

strong (wine), cool

酷 kù
cool adjective
stylish, hip, or fashionable (loanword from English)

他今天穿得真酷。

tā jīn​tiān chuān de zhēn kù.

He looks really cool today.

ruthless noun
cruel, oppressive, or merciless

这种古代的法律极其严酷。

zhè zhǒng gǔ​dài de fǎ​lǜ jí​qí yán kù.

These ancient laws were extremely harsh.

strong noun
very potent or intense, particularly in reference to wine or weather

正当酷暑，大家都在树下乘凉。

zhèng​dāng kù shǔ, dà​jiā dōu zài shù xià chéng​liáng.

In the sweltering heat of summer, everyone is relaxing in the shade of the trees.

Frequency
Character
Written text
1,867th most common 43.1 per million
Movie subtitles
958th most common 113.2 per million appears in 40% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
127.8 per million appears in 32% of films
Written text
34.7 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 6
HSK 3.0
Level 6
Strokes
14
Unicode
U+9177

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