嗑
kèhé

eat seeds

嗑 kè frequency
to take drugs nounverb
(Taiwan colloquial) To take or use illegal drugs, particularly in the expression 嗑药 kè​yào.
to crack with teeth
To crack open something hard, such as melon seeds, between the front teeth; also used to describe mice or rats gnawing a hole.
to chat
(bound form) To talk, chat, or gossip; most commonly used in Northern dialects or in the expression 唠嗑 lào​kē.
to eat or drink
(colloquial) To eat or drink; often used in the figurative expression 嗑西北风 kè​xī​běi​fēng meaning to have nothing to eat.
嗑 hé
to close
(literary) To close or shut, especially the mouth.
talkative
(literary) Loquacious; to talk too much.

Frequency
Character
Written text
4,594th most common 1.50 per million
Movie subtitles
2,409th most common 9.95 per million appears in 4% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
13.9 per million appears in 4% of films
Written text
1.62 per million

Details
Strokes
13
Unicode
U+55D1

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