胶
jiāo HSK5

glue

胶 (膠) jiāo
glue noun
an adhesive substance used to join objects together; the act of sticking with adhesive

他用胶把破损的信封粘好了。

tā yòng jiāo bǎ pò​sǔn de xìn​fēng zhān hǎo le.

He fixed the torn envelope with glue.

rubber noun
an elastic material, either natural or synthetic, used for tires and other products

这种球是用高弹性的胶制成的，回弹很快。

zhè zhǒng qiú shì yòng gāo tán​xìng de jiāo zhì​chéng de, huí​tán hěn kuài.

This ball is made of highly elastic rubber and bounces back quickly.

gum noun
a viscous, sticky substance secreted by plants; resin

树干上流出了透明的树胶。

shù​gàn shàng liú​chū le tòu​míng de shù jiāo.

Transparent gum is flowing from the tree trunk.

Frequency
Character
Written text
2,170th most common 29.6 per million
Movie subtitles
1,691st most common 32.3 per million appears in 14% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
10.2 per million appears in 4% of films
Written text
28.6 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 5
HSK 3.0
Level 5
Traditional
膠
Strokes
10
Unicode
U+80F6

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