陡
dǒu HSK7

steep

陡 dǒu
steep adjective
having a sharp inclination; precipitous

这里的山势非常陡，攀登起来很困难。

zhè​lǐ de shān​shì fēi​cháng dǒu, pān​dēng qi​lai hěn kùn​nan.

The mountains here are very steep, making them difficult to climb.

suddenly verb
occurring in an abrupt or unexpected manner

天气陡变，刚才还晴空万里，现在却下起雨来。

tiān​qì dǒu biàn, gāng​cái hái qíng​kōng​wàn​lǐ, xiàn​zài què xià​qǐ yǔ lái.

The weather changed suddenly; it was clear just a moment ago, but now it's raining.

Cross-References

Has old variant

Frequency
Character
Written text
2,362nd most common 22.8 per million
Movie subtitles
3,553rd most common 1.32 per million appears in 1% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
0.750 per million appears in 0% of films
Written text
3.84 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 6
HSK 3.0
Level 7
Strokes
9
Unicode
U+9661

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