憋
biē HSK7

to suppress inner feelings

憋 biē
hold in verb
to suppress bodily functions such as breath or urine

憋气时间过长可能会导致头晕。

biē qì shí​jiān guò cháng kě​néng huì dǎo​zhì tóu​yūn.

Holding your breath for too long may cause dizziness.

stifle verb
to feel suffocated or oppressed by a lack of air or physical confinement

屋子里的空气很不流通，憋得人难受。

wū​zi lǐ de kōng​qì hěn bù liú​tōng, biē de rén nán​shòu.

The air in the room isn't circulating well, making it feel stifling and uncomfortable.

suppress verb
to restrain or bottle up internal emotions, words, or impulses

他心里憋着一肚子气，没地方发泄。

tā xīn​li biē zhe yī dù​zi qì, méi dì​fang fā​xiè.

He was filled with pent-up anger and had nowhere to vent it.

Frequency
Character
Written text
3,141st most common 8.21 per million
Movie subtitles
2,691st most common 6.08 per million appears in 4% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
7.87 per million appears in 4% of films
Written text
13.6 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 6
HSK 3.0
Level 7
Strokes
15
Unicode
U+618B

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