kǎo

to beat; to hit; to inspect

verb HSK 3.0 · Band 2 trad. 攷

Watch it being written

Every character draws itself, stroke by stroke. Then grab the brush: trace it yourself and hear the word when you finish.

Build with these blocks

Chinese words snap together like bricks. Every word below shares a character with this one, so you are already halfway to knowing it.

See it in sentences

明天我们考中文。

We have a Chinese test tomorrow.

老师考了我们十个字。

The teacher tested us on ten characters.