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扯

chě

HSK 6 Character

What 扯 means

1. to pull
2. to tear
3. (of cloth, thread etc) to buy
4. to chat
5. to gossip
6. colloquialTaiwanridiculous
7. hokey

Other readings

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

• chěvariant of {扯|chě}; to pull; to tear

Example sentences

• 胡扯!
  Húchě!
  That's shit!
• 那完全是胡扯。
  Nà wánquán shì húchě.
  That's absolute nonsense.
• 我们就此扯平。
  Wǒmen jiùcǐ chěpíng.
  That makes us even.
• 不要东拉西扯。
  Bù yào dōnglāxīchě.
  Don't ramble.
• 你说的东西是胡扯。
  Nǐ shuō de dōngxi shì húchě.
  What you said is baloney.
• 我扯掉了自己的裤子。
  I ripped my pants.

Words starting with 扯

• 扯淡chě dànto talk nonsense
• 扯住chě zhùto grasp firmly
• 扯远chě yuǎnto digress; to get sidetracked; to go off on a tangent
• 扯皮chě píto wrangle; wrangling
• 扯平chě píngto make even; to balance; (fig.) to be even
• 扯直chě zhíto straighten (by pulling or stretching); to be even (neither side losing out)
• 扯破chě pòtear apart
• 扯裂chě lièrip
• 扯谈chě tánto talk nonsense (dialect)
• 扯谎chě huǎngto tell a lie
• 扯家常chě jiā chángto engage in small talk; to chit chat
• 扯后腿chě hòu tuǐto be a drag or hindrance on sb
• 扯鸡巴蛋chě jī ba dànto talk shit; to drivel; bullshit
• 扯铃chě língdiabolo; Chinese yo-yo
• 扯嗓子chě sǎng zito raise one's voice; to speak at the top of one's voice
• 扯犊子chě dú zi(dialect) to talk nonsense; to chat idly
• 扯蛋chě dànvariant of 扯淡
• 扯皮条chě pí tiáosee 拉皮条

Words containing 扯

• 牵扯qiān chěto involve; to implicate; to be interrelated
• 拉扯lā cheto drag; to pull; to raise a child (through difficulties)
• 胡扯hú chěto chatter; nonsense; blather
• 撕扯sī chěto tear apart
• 东拉西扯dōng lā xī chěto talk about this and that (idiom); to ramble incoherently
• 瞎扯xiā chěto talk irresponsibly; to talk nonsense
• 闲扯xián chěto chat; idle talk
• 鬼扯guǐ chěnonsense; humbug; bunk
• 拉扯大lā che dà(colloquial) to bring up; to rear; to raise
• 白扯淡bái chě dàn(colloquial) to talk rubbish
• 胡扯淡hú chě dànnonsense; irresponsible patter
• 鬼扯腿guǐ chě tuǐunable to restrain oneself; pulling and tugging at each other
• 丢轮扯炮diū lún chě pào(idiom) flustered; confused
• 互相扯皮hù xiāng chě píto pass the buck; to shirk responsibility
• 拉拉扯扯lā lā chě chěto tug at; to pull at sb aggressively; to take sb's hand or arm in a too familiar way
• 牵扯不清qiān chě bù qīngunclear; ambiguous; having an unclear relationship with
• 狗扯羊皮gǒu chě yáng píto fuss around; to buzz about uselessly; to wag one's tongue
• 瞎扯蛋xiā chě dànto talk irresponsibly; to talk nonsense
• 攀扯pān chěto implicate
• 油泼扯面yóu pō chě miànbroad, belt-shaped noodles, popular in Shaanxi, also known as 𰻞𰻞麵
• 掰扯bāi cheto debate; to dispute; to wrangle (dialect)
• 胡扯八溜hú chě bā liūto talk nonsense
• 胡诌八扯hú zhōu bā chě(idiom) to talk random nonsense; to say whatever comes into one's head
• 步子太大，容易扯着蛋bù zi tài dà , róng yì chě zhe dànif you take too big a stride, you could easily rip your balls (catchphrase)…

Characters built on 止

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

• 涩sèastringent; tart; acerbity
• 歰sèold variant of 涩

Characters that look like 扯

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

• 拉lāto pull; to play (a bowed instrument); to drag
• 抽chōuto draw out; to pull out from in between; to remove part of the whole…
• 杜dùbirchleaf pear (tree); to stop; to prevent
• 扭niǔto turn; to twist; to wring
• 祉zhǐfelicity
• 拦lánto block sb's path; to obstruct; to flag down (a taxi)

Sounds the same

Read chě, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 尺one of the characters used to represent a musical note in gongche notation, 工尺谱