恶
èwùě HSK4

evil

恶 (惡) è frequency
evil adjective
morally bad, wicked, or to harm

善有善报，恶有恶报。

shàn​yǒu​shàn​bào, è yǒu è​bào.

Good is rewarded with good, and evil with evil.

fierce adjective
fierce, ferocious, or vicious in behavior or appearance

山林里常有恶狼出没，村民们很少单独上山。

shān​lín lǐ cháng yǒu è láng chū​mò, cūn​mín men hěn shǎo dān​dú shàng​shān.

Fierce wolves often appear in the mountains, so villagers rarely go up alone.

ugly adjective
unpleasant to look at, or of coarse/poor quality

贫困家庭常穿粗恶的衣服。

pín​kùn jiā​tíng cháng chuān cū è de yī​fu.

Poor families often wear coarse and low-quality clothes.

恶 (惡) wù
hate noun
to hate, loathe, or detest

每个人都有自己的好恶，我们应该互相尊重。

měi gè rén dōu yǒu zì​jǐ de hào wù, wǒ​men yīng​gāi hù​xiāng zūn​zhòng.

Everyone has their own likes and dislikes; we should respect each other.

恶 (惡) ě
nauseous adjective
used in 恶心 ě​xīn, meaning nauseous or disgusting

这种油腻的食物吃多了，会让人感到一阵恶心。

zhè zhǒng yóu​nì de shí​wù chī duō le, huì ràng rén gǎn​dào yī zhèn ě​xīn.

Eating too much of this greasy food will make you feel nauseous.

Frequency
Character
Written text
792nd most common 229.9 per million
Movie subtitles
533rd most common 265.7 per million appears in 67% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
23.5 per million appears in 9% of films
Written text
27.7 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 5
HSK 3.0
Level 4
Traditional
惡噁
Strokes
10
Unicode
U+6076

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