醋 Definitions — Dong Chinese Dictionary

cù HSK6

vinegar

醋 cù

vinegar noun: a sour liquid used as a condiment or for preserving food; 这道菜里的醋放得太多了，味道太酸。

zhè dào cài lǐ de cù fàng de tài duō le, wèidao tài suān.

There's too much vinegar in this dish; it tastes too sour.

jealousy noun: jealousy or envy, especially in the context of romantic rivalry; 他说话总爱带着几分醋意。

tā shuōhuà zǒng ài dài zhe jǐ fēn cù yì.

He always sounds a bit jealous when he speaks.

Cross-References

Has variant

酢 cù

Frequency

Character

Written text: 3,076th most common 8.85 per million
Movie subtitles: 2,491st most common 8.71 per million appears in 5% of films

Word

Movie subtitles: 4.26 per million appears in 2% of films
Written text: 14.5 per million

Details

HSK 2.0: Level 5
HSK 3.0: Level 6
Strokes: 15
Unicode: U+918B

Sources

Definitions: CC-CEDICT
Frequency data: MTSU Chinese text computing SUBTLEX-CH BCC Corpus (BLCU)