嚼
jiáojiào HSK7

prattle

嚼 jiáo frequency
chew verb
to bite and grind something with the teeth

这块牛肉太老了，他嚼了半天还是吞不下去。

zhè kuài niú​ròu tài lǎo le, tā jiáo le bàn​tiān hái​shi tūn bù xià​qù.

This beef was too tough; he chewed for a long time but still couldn't swallow it.

嚼 jiào
chew verb
used in 倒嚼 dǎo​jiào

牛在树荫下倒嚼。

niú zài shù​yīn xià dǎo​jiào.

The cow was chewing its cud under the shade of a tree.

Frequency
Character
Written text
2,731st most common 14.2 per million
Movie subtitles
2,387th most common 10.3 per million appears in 5% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
11.6 per million appears in 4% of films
Written text
6.38 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 6
HSK 3.0
Level 7
Strokes
20
Unicode
U+56BC

Sources
Definitions
CC-CEDICT
Frequency data
MTSU Chinese text computingSUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)