耸
sǒng HSK7

urge on

耸 (聳) sǒng
raise verb
to raise up, lift, or shrug

他耸了耸肩，表示自己并不知道。

tā sǒng le sǒng​jiān, biǎo​shì zì​jǐ bìng bù zhī​dào.

He shrugged his shoulders, indicating he didn't know.

tower verb
standing high; lofty or towering

雄伟的纪念碑耸立在广场中央。

xióng​wěi de jì​niàn​bēi sǒng lì zài guǎng​chǎng zhōng​yāng.

A majestic monument towers in the center of the square.

excite idiom
to excite, startle, or cause a sensation

那是个耸人听闻的消息。

nà shì gè sǒng​rén​tīng​wén de xiāo​xi.

That was sensational news.

Frequency
Character
Written text
2,163rd most common 29.8 per million
Movie subtitles
3,095th most common 2.99 per million appears in 2% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
1.13 per million appears in 0% of films
Written text
7.39 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 6
HSK 3.0
Level 7
Traditional
聳
Strokes
10
Unicode
U+8038

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