qiāngqiàng

choke by smoke

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound. Simplified form of .

Components
口 meaning component

  Meaning component

kǒu

  

mouth

仓 sound component

  Sound component

cāng

  

granary

Evolution

呛 Traditional script Modern

Traditional script

Modern
呛 Simplified script Modern

Simplified script

Modern
Definitions

() 

qiāng

choke by smoke; irritates nose; to choke (because of swallowing the wrong way)

() 

qiàng

to irritate the nose; to choke (of smoke, smell etc); pungent; (coll.) (Tw) to shout at sb; to scold; to speak out against sb

Most common words with 呛
Freq.
Word
Meaning

pungent

够呛

unbearable

咳呛

(dialect) to cough

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 2.8832% of movies

2871st most common character in movies

3418th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

7

Traditional

Unicode

U+545B


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