癢
yǎng HSK7

itch

痒 (癢) yǎng
tickle adjective
to feel a tingling sensation or to be sensitive to being touched in a way that causes laughter

那个小孩特别怕痒，一碰到他的腋下就笑得停不下来。

nà​gè xiǎo​hái tè​bié pà yǎng, yī pèng​dào tā de yè​xià jiù xiào de tíng bù xià​lai.

That child is very ticklish; he can't stop laughing as soon as you touch his armpits.

itch adjective
to have or cause an irritating sensation on the skin that makes one want to scratch

我的后背被蚊子叮了一个包，抓挠了半天还是很痒。

wǒ de hòu​bèi bèi wén​zi dīng le yī gè bāo, zhuā​nao le bàn​tiān hái​shi hěn yǎng.

I have a mosquito bite on my back, and it's still very itchy even after scratching it for a long time.

Frequency
Character
Written text
2,646th most common 15.8 per million
Movie subtitles
2,227th most common 13.6 per million appears in 6% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
9.93 per million appears in 4% of films
Written text
9.07 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 5
HSK 3.0
Level 7
Simplified
痒
Strokes
20
Unicode
U+7662

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