敲
qiāo HSK5

strike

敲 qiāo
to knock verb
to hit, strike, or tap; to beat a drum; to rap on a door or surface

想象一下，敲一面鼓的时候会发生什么。

xiǎng​xiàng yī​xià, qiāo yī​miàn gǔ de shí​hou huì fā​shēng shén​me.

Imagine what happens when you beat a drum.

最后她决定敲门。

zuì​hòu tā jué​dìng qiāo mén.

Finally, she decided to knock on the door.

to overcharge verbnoun
(colloquial) to fleece or rip someone off; to extort money; to blackmail, as in 敲竹杠 qiāo​zhú​gàng
to weigh
(literary) to ponder or weigh words; to deliberate, as used in the compound 推敲 tuī​qiāo
to criticize
(Mainland China colloquial) to criticize or alert someone in order to keep them level-headed
short cane
(literary) a short wooden stick or cane used for striking

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Frequency
Character
Written text
1,732nd most common 51.6 per million
Movie subtitles
1,495th most common 43.5 per million appears in 20% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
27.9 per million appears in 10% of films
Written text
19.3 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 4
HSK 3.0
Level 5
Strokes
14
Unicode
U+6572

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