滴
dī HSK6

drip

滴 dī
drop measure word
a drop of liquid; classifier for drops of liquid

他流下了一滴眼泪。

tā liú​xià le yī dī yǎn​lèi.

A single tear rolled down his face.

drip verb
to drip or let liquid fall in drops

水从屋顶滴了下来。

shuǐ cóng wū​dǐng dī le xià​lai.

Water was dripping from the roof.

apply verb
to apply liquid in drops, such as eye drops

医生让我每天往眼里滴三次药。

yī​shēng ràng wǒ měi tiān wǎng yǎn lǐ dī sān cì yào.

The doctor told me to put eye drops in three times a day.

Frequency
Character
Written text
1,896th most common 41.9 per million
Movie subtitles
1,893rd most common 23.3 per million appears in 11% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
25.7 per million appears in 9% of films
Written text
96.5 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 5
HSK 3.0
Level 6
Strokes
14
Unicode
U+6EF4

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