泡
pàopāo HSK6

bubbles

泡 pào frequency
bubble noun
bubble; foam; blister; sth. shaped like a bubble, such as a lightbulb
to soak verb
to soak; to steep; to infuse; to immerse in liquid for a long time

我泡了一些咖啡。

wǒ pào le yī​xiē kā​fēi.

I made some coffee.

他又把双手浸在水里泡着。

tā yòu bǎ shuāng​shǒu jìn zài shuǐ li pào zhe.

He put his hands in the water again to soak them.

to pester verb
to pester or harass; to pick up (a girl); to get off with a partner

你是在泡我吗？

nǐ shì zài pào wǒ ma?

Are you hitting on me?

to dawdle
to dawdle; to while away time; to hang out at a place for a long time
classifier for tea infusions
classifier for the number of times tea has been brewed or infused
泡 pāo
classifier for urine or feces
puffy
(bound form) puffy; soft and swollen; spongy; not solid
lake
small lake (often used in place names)

Cross-References

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Frequency
Character
Written text
2,000th most common 36.4 per million
Movie subtitles
1,307th most common 58.6 per million appears in 23% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
32.9 per million appears in 12% of films
Written text
55.4 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 6
HSK 3.0
Level 6
Strokes
8
Unicode
U+6CE1

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