HSK5

scold

variant
to scold verb
to reprove or rebuke someone; to reprimand

Were you scolded by your teacher?

If he wants to insult me and call me a liar, that’s fine.

to curse
to abuse someone verbally; to swear at or use foul language

Cross-References

Classifier

Same as

Frequency

Character
Written text
1,449th most common 77.4 per million
Movie subtitles
1,959th most common 20.8 per million appears in 11% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
21.9 per million appears in 9% of films
Written text
57.7 per million

Details

HSK 2.0
Level 5
HSK 3.0
Level 5
Traditional
Strokes
9
Unicode
U+9A82

Sources