兆
zhào HSK7

omen

兆 zhào
sign noun
sign; omen; portent; an indication that something is about to happen

婚礼前让新郎见到新娘是厄运之兆。

hūn​lǐ qián ràng xīn​láng jiàn dào xīn​niáng shì è​yùn zhī zhào.

It's bad luck for the groom to see the bride before the wedding.

to portend
to portend; to foretell; to serve as a sign of something to come
trillion
a large number; in modern usage, typically a million (10^6) in Mainland China scientific contexts and a trillion (10^12) in Taiwan; historically used for various scales including billion
mega-
(computing, metric) a prefix meaning one million (10^6)
many
numerous; vast; (bound form) the masses
grave
(literary) burial ground; family grave site
Zhao
a Chinese surname
divination cracks
cracks appearing on scorched tortoise shells or oracle bones, used in ancient divination to determine fortune
tera-
(computing, Taiwan) a prefix meaning one trillion (10^12), as in 兆字节 zhào​zì​jié

Cross-References

Synonym

Frequency
Character
Written text
2,246th most common 26.9 per million
Movie subtitles
2,143rd most common 15.3 per million appears in 8% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
2.50 per million appears in 1% of films

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 6
HSK 3.0
Level 7
Strokes
6
Unicode
U+5146

Sources
Frequency data
MTSU Chinese text computingSUBTLEX-CH