掐
qiā HSK7

hold

掐 qiā
to pinch verb
to pinch or nip with the fingernails

我们两个都一直在掐自己，证明这不是在做梦。

wǒ​men liǎng​ge dōu yī​zhí zài qiā zì​jǐ, zhèng​míng zhè bù​shì zài zuò mèng.

We both kept pinching ourselves to prove that it wasn't all a dream.

to pick
to pick or break off something small using the fingernails, such as flowers or bean sprouts
to cut off
to cut off or interrupt something, such as a phone call or a light; to suppress or control something or someone
to calculate
to calculate or count by using the thumb to press different points on the other four fingers
to fight
(slang) to fight, quarrel, or struggle against one another
pinch
a small amount held between the thumb and another finger
to clutch
to squeeze tightly with the hand or the space between the thumb and forefinger; to choke or strangle

Frequency
Character
Written text
3,494th most common 5.38 per million
Movie subtitles
2,534th most common 8.16 per million appears in 5% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
11.4 per million appears in 5% of films
Written text
8.65 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 6
HSK 3.0
Level 7
Strokes
11
Unicode
U+6390

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