HSK 7–9 vocabularyHSK 3.0

呛

qiāng · qiàng

Traditional: 嗆

to choke (because of swallowing the wrong way)

HSK 7–9

Meanings of 呛 in English

qiāngHSK 7–9verbSyllabus #8644
  1. to choke (because of swallowing the wrong way)
qiàngHSK 7–9verbSyllabus #8659
  1. to irritate the nose
  2. to choke (of smoke, smell etc)
  3. to scold
  4. to speak out against sb
  5. pungent
  6. (coll.) (Tw) to shout at sb

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HSK words with 呛

Level, pinyin and part of speech: HSK Syllabus (CLEC, Nov 2025). Definitions: CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0. Sources & licences