擠
jǐ HSK5

crowd

挤 擠 jǐ
crowded verb
tightly packed; to be crowded together; to cram into a space

那些孩子像一群羊一样挤在一起。

nà​xiē hái​zi xiàng yī​qún yáng yī​yàng jǐ zài yī​qǐ.

The children huddled together like a flock of sheep.

因为想要坐在一起，我们就试着挤在一排。

yīn​wèi xiǎng​yào zuò zài yī​qǐ, wǒ​men jiù shì​zhe jǐ zài yī pái.

Wanting to sit together, we tried to squeeze into one row.

to squeeze verb
to press or squeeze; to force something out through pressure; (metaphorically) to find or make (time) in a busy schedule

他们还给马挤奶，吃了马肉。

tā​men hái gěi mǎ jǐ nǎi, chī le mǎ ròu.

They also milked their horses and ate horse meat.

to jostle verb
to push against others; to elbow or force one's way through a crowd

他挤到了人群的前面。

tā jǐ dào le rén​qún de qián​miàn.

He pushed his way to the front of the crowd.

to force out
to push someone aside; to force someone or something out of a position or a competition

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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
Frequency data
MTSU Chinese text computingSUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)