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呛

qiàng

HSK 3.0 character level 7-9 Character Traditional 嗆

呛 (qiàng) means "to choke (because of swallowing the wrong way); to irritate the nose; to choke (of smoke, smell etc)". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was not on the old six-level HSK list.

What 呛 means

1. to irritate the nose
2. to choke (of smoke, smell etc)
3. pungent
4. colloquialTaiwanto shout at sb
5. to scold
6. to speak out against sb

Other readings

呛 is 多音字 — it is read more than one way, and the reading changes the meaning.

• qiāngto choke (because of swallowing the wrong way)

Words starting with 呛

• 呛到qiāng dàoto choke on (food etc); to swallow the wrong way
• 呛咕qiāng guto discuss (dialect)

Words containing 呛

• 够呛gòu qiàngunbearable; terrible; enough
• 咳呛ké qiàng(dialect) to cough

Characters built on 仓

These share the phonetic component 仓 (cāng), which is why their readings rhyme. Learning them as a family is far cheaper than learning them one at a time.

• 枪qiānggun; firearm; rifle
• 抢qiǎngto fight over; to rush; to scramble
• 跄qiāngwalk rapidly
• 戗qiāngcontrary; pushing against; bump
• 炝qiàngto briefly boil (a vegetable etc), then dress with soy sauce, oil, vinegar etc…

Characters that look like 呛

Easy to confuse on sight. Compare them side by side once and the pair stops costing you.

• 吻wěnkiss; to kiss; mouth
• 吩fēnused in 吩咐; used in transliteration of chemical compounds
• 呦yōuOh! (exclamation of dismay etc); used in 呦呦
• 咆páoto roar
• 呤língused in 呤呤
• 咂zāto sip; to smack one's lips; to taste

Sounds the same

Read qiàng, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 炝to briefly boil (a vegetable etc), then dress with soy sauce, oil, vinegar etc…
• 𬧀used in 踉𬧀liàng qiàng
• 跄stagger; sway from side to side

Go deeper

• How characters are built from components.
• How to learn Chinese characters.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read qiàng correctly.
• Look up another word in the free dictionary.