糟
zāo HSK5

sediment, rotten, ruined

糟 zāo
rotten adjective
decayed, spoiled, or in a messy and ruined state

事情被他搞糟了。

shì​qing bèi tā gǎo zāo le.

He messed the whole thing up.

dregs noun
sediment from making wine or residue from distilled grains

他把剩下的糟倒进桶里喂猪。

tā bǎ shèng​xià de zāo dào​jìn tǒng lǐ wèi zhū.

He poured the remaining dregs into the bucket to feed the pigs.

pickled noun
food preserved or marinated in distiller's grains or wine

我很喜欢吃糟毛豆。

wǒ hěn xǐ​huan chī zāo máo​dòu.

I really like eating edamame marinated in distiller's grains.

Frequency
Character
Written text
1,918th most common 41.1 per million
Movie subtitles
537th most common 263.2 per million appears in 72% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
164.3 per million appears in 47% of films
Written text
8.44 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 5
HSK 3.0
Level 5
Strokes
17
Unicode
U+7CDF

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