搖
yáoYáo HSK4

wag, shake

摇 (搖) yáo frequency
shake verb
to move back and forth, rock, or sway

他摇了摇头，表示不赞成。

tā yáo le yáo​tóu, biǎo​shì bù zàn​chéng.

He shook his head in disapproval.

row or crank verb
to propel a boat with an oar or to turn a handle to operate a machine

渔夫正在用力地摇桨。

yú​fū zhèng​zài yòng​lì de yáo​jiǎng.

The fisherman is rowing hard.

摇 (搖) Yáo
Yao proper name
surname Yao

摇先生是这家跨国公司新聘请的技术总监。

Yáo xiān​sheng shì zhè jiā kuà​guó gōng​sī xīn pìn​qǐng de jì​shù zǒng​jiān.

Mr. Yao is the newly hired technical director of this multinational company.

Frequency
Character
Written text
940th most common 179.0 per million
Movie subtitles
1,163rd most common 76.6 per million appears in 26% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
20.7 per million appears in 7% of films
Written text
40.4 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 5
HSK 3.0
Level 4
Simplified
摇
Strokes
13
Unicode
U+6416

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