掐
qiā HSK7

hold

掐 qiā
pinch verb
to press or squeeze between fingers; to clutch or choke

他不小心掐到了我的手。

tā bù xiǎo​xīn qiā dào le wǒ de shǒu.

He accidentally pinched my hand.

fight verb
to argue, quarrel, or engage in a physical or verbal fight

这两个人一见面就掐了起来。

zhè liǎng gè rén yī jiàn​miàn jiù qiā le qi​lai.

These two started fighting as soon as they met.

pick verb
to pick, nip, or pluck off something (like flowers or leaves) using the fingers

她在花园里掐了一朵花。

tā zài huā​yuán lǐ qiā le yī duǒ huā.

She plucked a flower in the garden.

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