敲
qiāo HSK5

strike

敲 qiāo
knock verb
to hit, strike, tap, rap, or knock on something

他一边思考问题，一边轻轻地敲着桌面。

tā yī​biān sī​kǎo wèn​tí, yī​biān qīng​qīng de qiāo zhe zhuō​miàn.

He tapped the table lightly while pondering the problem.

overcharge verb
to rip someone off or charge an excessive price

那些黑心摊贩专门敲外地游客的钱。

nà​xiē hēi​xīn tān​fàn zhuān​mén qiāo wài​dì yóu​kè de qián.

Those unscrupulous vendors specialize in overcharging tourists.

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