挫
cuò HSK7

push down

挫 cuò
subdue verb
to oppress, repress, dampen, or lower the spirit or tone of something

我们应该挫一挫他的傲气。

wǒ​men yīng​gāi cuò yī cuò tā de ào​qì.

We should take him down a peg or two.

bend back verb
to bend something backward or cause a blunt injury to a joint

打篮球时他不小心挫了手指。

dǎ lán​qiú shí tā bù xiǎo​xīn cuò le shǒu​zhǐ.

He accidentally jammed his finger while playing basketball.

fail verb
to experience a setback, be obstructed, or fail in an endeavor

敌人的进攻在第一线受挫。

dí​rén de jìn​gōng zài dì​yī​xiàn shòu​cuò.

The enemy's attack was thwarted at the front line.

Frequency
Character
Written text
2,426th most common 21.1 per million
Movie subtitles
2,527th most common 8.26 per million appears in 5% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
2.27 per million appears in 1% of films
Written text
12.0 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 6
HSK 3.0
Level 7
Strokes
10
Unicode
U+632B

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