呛
qiàngqiāng HSK7

choke by smoke

呛 (嗆) qiàng frequency
choke adjective
to irritate the nose or throat; to be pungent (due to smoke, steam, or strong smells)

厨房里的辣椒味很呛。

chú​fáng lǐ de là​jiāo​wèi hěn qiàng.

The smell of chili in the kitchen is very pungent.

scold verb
to shout at, scold, or speak out against someone (colloquial, particularly in Taiwan)

他无缘无故被主管呛了一顿。

tā wú​yuán​wú​gù bèi zhǔ​guǎn qiàng le yī dùn.

His supervisor snapped at him for no reason.

呛 (嗆) qiāng
choke verb
to choke (because of swallowing the wrong way)

他喝水太快，呛到了。

tā hē​shuǐ tài kuài, qiāng dào le.

He drank the water too fast and choked on it.

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