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胁持
xié​chí

to hold under duress

Definitions Defs Origin Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents
胁持 脅持 xié​chí
to hold under duress
To seize someone on both sides by the arms; to hold someone by force or under duress; to kidnap or abduct. This is a common variant of 挟持 xié​chí.

Frequency

Movie subtitles
0.510 per million appears in 0% of films
Written text
0.111 per million

Cross-References

Same as

  • 挟持 xié​chí

Sources

Frequency data
SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)