宰
zǎi HSK7

to slaughter

宰 zǎi
to govern verbnoun
(bound form) to govern; to rule; to be in charge of, as seen in 主宰 zhǔ​zǎi
to slaughter
to slaughter; to butcher; to kill animals for meat
to rip off
(colloquial) to overcharge; to fleece; to rip off a customer
[official title]
(bound form) a title for certain government officials or local administrators in ancient China, such as 宰相 zǎi​xiàng
Zai
(proper noun) a Chinese surname

Frequency
Character
Written text
2,080th most common 33.0 per million
Movie subtitles
1,911th most common 22.3 per million appears in 10% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
20.2 per million appears in 6% of films
Written text
11.6 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 6
HSK 3.0
Level 7
Strokes
10
Unicode
U+5BB0

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