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刺耳
cì'ěr HSK7

ear-piercing

Definitions Defs Origin Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents
刺耳 cì'ěr
ear-piercing adjective
ear-piercing; harsh to the ear

尖锐的刹车声非常刺耳。

jiān​ruì de shā​chē​shēng fēi​cháng cì'ěr.

The sharp sound of braking was very ear-piercing.

Frequency

Movie subtitles
1.73 per million appears in 1% of films
Written text
2.83 per million

Details

HSK 3.0
Level 7

Sources

Definitions
CC-CEDICT
Frequency data
SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)