闪烁
shǎn​shuò HSK7

twinkle

闪烁 (閃爍) shǎn​shuò
twinkle verb
to glisten, glitter, twinkle, or flicker

漫天的星斗在黑夜中闪烁。

màn​tiān de xīng​dǒu zài hēi​yè zhōng shǎn​shuò.

The stars across the sky twinkled in the dark night.

equivocate verb
to be evasive or to avoid direct answers

面对质问，他闪烁其辞，不敢正面回答。

miàn​duì zhì​wèn, tā shǎn​shuò qí cí, bù gǎn zhèng​miàn huí​dá.

When questioned, he spoke evasively and did not dare to answer directly.

Frequency
Movie subtitles
3.43 per million appears in 2% of films
Written text
8.69 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 6
HSK 3.0
Level 7

Cross-References

Has variant

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