骂 Definitions — Dong Chinese Dictionary

mà HSK5

scold

骂 (罵) mà

scold verb: to reprimand or rebuke someone sharply; 他做错了事，被爸爸骂了一顿。

tā zuòcuò le shì, bèi bàba mà le yī dùn.

He did something wrong and was scolded by his father.

curse verb: to use profanity or verbally abuse someone; 他在气头上大声骂了一句粗话。

tā zài qìtóu shàng dàshēng mà le yī jù cūhuà.

In a fit of anger, he shouted out a swear word.

Cross-References

Classifier

通 tòng
顿 dùn

Has variant

㐷 mà

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: 罵駡
Strokes: 9
Unicode: U+9A82

Sources

Definitions: CC-CEDICT
Frequency data: MTSU Chinese text computing SUBTLEX-CH BCC Corpus (BLCU)