刁
diāoDiāo HSK7

tricky

刁 diāo frequency
artful adjective
cunning, sly, or tricky in a deceptive way

他这人做事很刁，总是想方设法占便宜。

tā zhèi rén zuò​shì hěn diāo, zǒng​shì xiǎng​fāng​shè​fǎ zhàn pián​yi.

He is very tricky in his dealings and always tries to find ways to take advantage of others.

wicked noun
malicious, perverse, or unruly

以前这里常有刁民聚众滋事。

yǐ​qián zhè​lǐ cháng yǒu diāo mín jù​zhòng zī​shì.

In the past, unruly people often gathered here to cause trouble.

刁 Diāo
Diao proper name
surname Diao

刁先生是一位著名的数学家。

Diāo xiān​sheng shì yī wèi zhù​míng de shù​xué​jiā.

Mr. Diao is a famous mathematician.

Frequency
Character
Written text
3,635th most common 4.50 per million
Movie subtitles
3,429th most common 1.64 per million appears in 1% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
0.800 per million appears in 0% of films
Written text
3.33 per million

Details
HSK 3.0
Level 7
Strokes
2
Unicode
U+5201

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