突
tū HSK3

suddenly

突 tū
sudden verb
abrupt or unexpected

病人的情况发生了突变。

bìng​rén de qíng​kuàng fā​shēng le tū biàn.

The patient's condition took a sudden turn.

dash verb
to dash, move forward quickly, rush out, or break through

战士们成功突出了重围。

zhàn​shì men chéng​gōng tū chū le chóng​wéi.

The soldiers successfully broke through the encirclement.

protrude verb
to bulge or stick out from a surface

这一块岩石向外突。

zhè yī kuài yán​shí xiàng wài tū.

This piece of rock protrudes outward.

Cross-References

Has variant

Frequency
Character
Written text
484th most common 436.5 per million
Movie subtitles
821st most common 150.4 per million appears in 57% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
4.02 per million appears in 1% of films
Written text
24.7 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 3
HSK 3.0
Level 3
Strokes
9
Unicode
U+7A81

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