要命
yào​mìng HSK7

to kill

要命 yào//mìng
to kill verb + noun
To cause someone's death; to take a life.

你差点要了我的命！

nǐ chà​diǎn yào le wǒ​de mìng!

You nearly killed me!

extremely adjective
Used as a complement to indicate an extreme degree, often when a situation is hard to bear.

你妈妈担心得要命。

nǐ mā​ma dān xīn de yào​mìng.

Your mom's worried sick.

更要命的是，他们还是表兄妹。

gèng yào​mìng de shì, tā​men hái​shi biǎo​xiōng​mèi.

What is even worse is that they are cousins.

annoying
Annoying, aggravating, or dangerous
how awful
Used as an exclamation to express frustration or complaint about a problematic situation

Frequency
Movie subtitles
8.29 per million appears in 4% of films
Written text
8.44 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 6
HSK 3.0
Level 7

Cross-References

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Sources
Frequency data
SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)