鑿
záo HSK7

chisel

凿 (鑿) záo
chisel verb
to bore a hole, chisel, or dig

工人们在冰面上凿了一个大洞用来捕鱼。

gōng​rén men zài bīng​miàn shàng záo le yī gè dà dòng yòng​lái bǔ​yú.

The workers cut a large hole in the ice for fishing.

irrefutable adjective
(literary) certain, authentic, or irrefutable

在确凿的证据面前，他终于承认了自己的错误。

zài què​záo de zhèng​jù miàn​qián, tā zhōng​yú chéng​rèn le zì​jǐ de cuò​wù.

In the face of conclusive evidence, he finally admitted his mistake.

Frequency
Character
Written text
2,696th most common 14.9 per million
Movie subtitles
2,730th most common 5.72 per million appears in 3% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
1.61 per million appears in 1% of films
Written text
3.31 per million

Details
HSK 3.0
Level 7
Simplified
凿
Strokes
28
Unicode
U+947F

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