咬
yǎojiāo HSK5

bite

咬 yǎo frequency
variant 齩
to bite verb
To bite or nip with the teeth; to bark or snap at; to sting or bite like an insect.

不要咬你的指甲。

bù​yào yǎo nǐ de zhǐ​jia.

Don't bite your nails.

如果蛇咬了我怎么办？

rú​guǒ shé yǎo le wǒ zěn​me​bàn?

What if a snake bites me?

咬 yǎo
to grip verb
To grip or hold firmly with a tool, such as pliers; to interlock like gears or screws.
to incriminate
To implicate or involve others, often falsely, in a crime or accusation; to lash out at someone.
to pronounce
To pronounce or enunciate speech sounds
to follow closely
To pursue or follow closely behind an opponent in a competition or a chase.
to corrode
To irritate the skin or corrode metals through chemical action.
to insist
To stick to what one has said; to be firm or fixed in a statement or accusation
to be pedantic
To be nitpicking or pedantic about the use of words or phrasing
咬 jiāo
[onomatopoeia]
(bound form) Used in the word 咬咬 jiāo​jiāo to describe the sound of birds chirping or singing.

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Frequency
Character
Written text
1,658th most common 57.0 per million
Movie subtitles
1,389th most common 51.6 per million appears in 19% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
68.7 per million appears in 19% of films
Written text
30.3 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 5
HSK 3.0
Level 5
Strokes
9
Unicode
U+54AC

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