胁
xié HSK6

ribs

胁 (脅) xié
coerce verb
to pressure or force someone through the use of threats

他是受胁才提供假口供的，并非出于本意。

tā shì shòu xié cái tí​gōng jiǎ kǒu​gòng de, bìng fēi chū​yú běn​yì.

He provided a false statement under coercion, not of his own will.

flank abbreviation
the side of the torso between the ribs and the hip

他的两胁在运动中受了伤。

tā de liǎng​xié zài yùn​dòng zhōng shòu le shāng.

Both sides of his chest were injured during exercise.

Frequency
Character
Written text
1,494th most common 72.1 per million
Movie subtitles
1,210th most common 69.8 per million appears in 29% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
0.420 per million appears in 0% of films
Written text
3.68 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 5
HSK 3.0
Level 6
Traditional
脅
Strokes
8
Unicode
U+80C1

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