呛
qiāngqiàng HSK7

choke by smoke

呛 嗆 qiāng frequency
to choke particleverb
to choke or cough because food or liquid has entered the windpipe
to peck at
(of birds) to peck at food
呛 嗆 qiàng
to irritate
to irritate the nose or throat (usually of smoke, strong smells, or pungent gas); to cause coughing or difficulty breathing through irritation
to speak out against
(Taiwan colloquial) to speak aggressively or provocatively to someone; to scold or challenge someone

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Frequency
Character
Written text
3,418th most common 5.79 per million
Movie subtitles
2,875th most common 4.21 per million appears in 3% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
2.95 per million appears in 1% of films
Written text
6.49 per million

Details
HSK 3.0
Level 7
Traditional
嗆
Strokes
7
Unicode
U+545B

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