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折磨
zhé​mó HSK7

torment

Definitions Defs Origin Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents
折磨 zhé​mó
torment verb
to torment; to torture

这种病折磨了他很多年。

zhè zhǒng bìng zhé​mó le tā hěn​duō nián.

This disease tormented him for many years.

Frequency

Movie subtitles
44.2 per million appears in 17% of films
Written text
17.9 per million

Details

HSK 2.0
Level 6
HSK 3.0
Level 7

Sources

Definitions
CC-CEDICT
Frequency data
SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)