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掐

qiā

Old HSK 6 HSK 3.0 character level 7-9 Character

掐 (qiā) means "to pick (flowers); to pinch; to nip". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was HSK 6 in the old six-level list.

What 掐 means

1. to pick (flowers)
2. to pinch
3. to nip
4. to pinch off
5. to clutch
6. slangto fight

Example sentences

• 放开我，你正在掐着我的脖子。
  Fàngkāi wǒ, nǐ zhèngzài qiā zhe wǒ de bózi.
  Let me go, you're choking me.

Words starting with 掐

• 掐死qiā sǐto throttle; to choke to death
• 掐断qiā duànto nip off (with fingernails etc); (fig.) to cut off (supply etc); to disconnect
• 掐架qiā jià(of dogs, roosters etc) to fight; to tussle; (of people) to have an altercation with sb…
• 掐算qiā suànto count with one's fingers; on the spot calculation
• 掐表qiā biǎoto use a stopwatch
• 掐脖子qiā bó zito seize by the throat

Characters that look like 掐

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

• 格gésquare; lattice; grid; frame; compartment; partition; slot (within a larger unit)…
• 插chāto insert; stick in; pierce
• 焰yànflame
• 揍zòuto hit; to beat (sb); (colloquial) to smash (sth)
• 捂wǔto enclose; to cover with the hand (one's eyes, nose or ears); to cover up (an affair)
• 猖chāngferocious

Sounds the same

Read qiā, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 葜used in 菝葜
• 袷used in 袷袢

Where 掐 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of HSK 6 Vocabulary · qiā–qià (HSK 6), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

Go deeper

• Every HSK 6 word, with the rest of its level.
• How characters are built from components.
• How to learn Chinese characters.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read qiā correctly.
• Look up another word in the free dictionary.