廹
pò

to persecute

迫 (廹) pò
embarrassed adjective
feeling constrained, awkward, or in a difficult or straitened situation

面对这突如其来的请求，他感到十分窘迫。

miàn​duì zhèi tū​rú​qí​lái de qǐng​qiú, tā gǎn​dào shí​fēn jiǒng pò.

He felt very embarrassed in the face of this sudden request.

persecute verb
to subject someone to hostility or ill-treatment; to oppress

那段历史中，许多人遭到了政治迫害。

nà duàn lì​shǐ zhōng, xǔ​duō rén zāo​dào le zhèng​zhì pò hài.

In that period of history, many people suffered political persecution.

Frequency
Character
Movie subtitles
5,701st most common 0.020 per million appears in 0% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
1.88 per million appears in 1% of films
Written text
8.55 per million

Details
Strokes
7
Unicode
U+5EF9

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