兇
xiōng HSK6

terrible, fearful

凶 (兇) xiōng
fierce adjective
ferocious, violent, or frightening in manner or appearance

那只狗看起来非常凶。

nà zhī gǒu kàn​qǐ​lai fēi​cháng xiōng.

That dog looks very fierce.

famine noun
crop failure or a year of poor harvest

连年遭凶，百姓生活困苦。

lián​nián zāo xiōng, bǎi​xìng shēng​huó kùn​kǔ.

Suffering through successive bad years, the people lived in hardship.

inauspicious noun
unlucky, ominous, or boding ill

这事听起来吉凶未卜，还是小心为妙。

zhè shì tīng qi​lai jí xiōng wèi​bǔ, hái​shi xiǎo​xīn wéi miào.

This sounds like its outcome is uncertain; it is better to be careful.

murderous noun
relating to murder, violence, or a criminal act

警察封锁了现场，试图寻找杀人的真凶。

jǐng​chá fēng​suǒ le xiàn​chǎng, shì​tú xún​zhǎo shā​rén de zhēn xiōng.

The police cordoned off the scene and tried to find the real killer.

Frequency
Character
Movie subtitles
5,469th most common 0.020 per million appears in 0% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
22.2 per million appears in 9% of films
Written text
18.1 per million

Details
HSK 3.0
Level 6
Strokes
6
Unicode
U+5147

Sources
Definitions
CC-CEDICT
Frequency data
SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)