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要挟
yāo​xié

to blackmail

Definitions Defs Origin Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents
要挟 要挾 yāo​xié
to blackmail
To coerce or threaten someone by taking advantage of their weaknesses or by relying on one's own power; also written as 要胁 yāo​xié

Frequency

Movie subtitles
2.38 per million appears in 1% of films
Written text
1.81 per million

Cross-References

Variant of

  • 要胁 yāo​xié

Synonym

  • 挟持 xié​chí

Sources

Frequency data
SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)