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Chinese Character/Word:

Definition(s) for: 咋舌

Hanzi Pinyin Definition(s)
咋舌 zé shé - (literary) to be speechless

List Ranking:

Where rank 1 is most common, and higher numbers are less common.

HSK 2 Level (2012) HSK 3 Band (2022) SUBTLEX-CH BeijingUni Global BeijingUni Weibo
- - 67,661 30,481 40,437

Individual Character Breakdown:

Simp Pinyin Eng
咋 zǎ- dialectal equivalent of 怎麼|怎么[zen3me5]
- Taiwan pr. [ze2]
咋 zé- (literary) to bite; to gnaw
咋 zhā- used in 咋呼[zha1hu5]
- Taiwan pr. [ze2]
舌 jī- used in 喇舌[la3 ji1] to transcribe the Taiwanese word for "tongue"
舌 shé- tongue

Other Words Containing 咋舌

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Word HSK 2 Level (2012) HSK 3 Band (2022) SUBTLEX-CH BeijingUni Global BeijingUni Weibo
咋舌 - - 67,661 30,481 40,437