Read Edit View history 要挟 yāoxié to blackmail Origin Definitions Defs Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents 要挟 要挾 yāoxié to blackmail To coerce or threaten someone by taking advantage of their weaknesses or by relying on one's own power; also written as 要胁 yāoxié Frequency Movie subtitles 2.38 per million appears in 1% of films Written text 1.81 per million Cross-References Variant of 要胁 yāoxiéSynonym 挟持 xiéchí Sources Frequency data SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)
要挟 要挾 yāoxié to blackmail To coerce or threaten someone by taking advantage of their weaknesses or by relying on one's own power; also written as 要胁 yāoxié Frequency Movie subtitles 2.38 per million appears in 1% of films Written text 1.81 per million Cross-References Variant of 要胁 yāoxiéSynonym 挟持 xiéchí Sources Frequency data SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)