敲诈
qiāo​zhà HSK7

extort

敲诈 (敲詐) qiāo​zhà
extort idiom
to obtain money, property, or value through force, threats, or blackmail; to rip someone off

他因敲诈勒索被警方逮捕。

tā yīn qiāo​zhà lè​suǒ bèi jǐng​fāng dài​bǔ.

He was arrested by the police for extortion.

Frequency
Movie subtitles
6.86 per million appears in 2% of films
Written text
3.35 per million

Details
HSK 3.0
Level 7

Cross-References

Has variant

Sources
Definitions
CC-CEDICT
Frequency data
SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)