憋
biē HSK7

to suppress inner feelings

憋 biē
to suppress verb
To restrain or hold back a physical urge, emotion, or thought; to contain oneself with effort, such as holding one's breath or keeping a secret.

你憋气能憋多久？

nǐ biē qì néng biē duō​jiǔ?

How long can you hold your breath?

to feel stifled
To feel suffocated or oppressed due to a lack of fresh air or an inability to vent one's frustrations.
to plot
To harbor a hidden plan or intention in one's mind, often with a negative or mischievous connotation.

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Same as

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