擠
jǐ HSK5

crowd

挤 (擠) jǐ
crowd verb
to crowd in or cram into a limited space; to be packed closely together

公共汽车上挤满了人。

gōng​gòng qì​chē shàng jǐ mǎn le rén.

The bus was packed with people.

squeeze verb
to press or apply pressure to extract something

他正在挤牙膏。

tā zhèng​zài jǐ yá​gāo.

He is squeezing out some toothpaste.

push aside verb
to force others aside or compete for space

大家都在往前面挤。

dà​jiā dōu zài wǎng qián​miàn jǐ.

Everyone was pushing toward the front.

find time verb
to manage to find time within a busy schedule

你应该挤时间多读点书。

nǐ yīng​gāi jǐ shí​jiān duō dú diǎn shū.

You should squeeze in some time to read more books.

Frequency
Character
Written text
1,661st most common 56.4 per million
Movie subtitles
1,723rd most common 30.7 per million appears in 16% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
26.7 per million appears in 10% of films
Written text
34.9 per million

Details
HSK 3.0
Level 5
Simplified
挤
Strokes
17
Unicode
U+64E0

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