矮
ǎi HSK4

short

矮 ǎi
short adjective
of low height or stature, typically referring to people or animals

这个男孩子长得又矮又胖。

zhè gè nán hái​zi zhǎng de yòu ǎi yòu pàng.

This boy is short and fat.

inferior adjective
lower in rank, grade, or social status

他的辈分比我矮一辈。

tā de bèi​fen bǐ wǒ ǎi yī bèi.

He is one generation lower than me in the family tree.

low adjective
not high in height, typically referring to objects such as walls or furniture

这间屋子的天花板很矮。

zhè jiān wū​zi de tiān​huā​bǎn hěn ǎi.

The ceiling in this room is very low.

Frequency
Character
Written text
2,027th most common 35.3 per million
Movie subtitles
2,015th most common 18.9 per million appears in 8% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
18.8 per million appears in 6% of films
Written text
25.2 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 3
HSK 3.0
Level 4
Strokes
13
Unicode
U+77EE

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