呛 Traditional (Taiwan): 嗆 On the HSK 7-9 vocabulary list, at CEFR level C2. qiāng ㄑㄧㄤ to choke (because of swallowing the wrong way) qiàng ㄑㄧㄤˋ to irritate the nose to choke (of smoke, smell etc) pungent (Tw) to shout at sb coll. to scold to speak out against sb Sources CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0 pinyinjs, Apache-2.0 国际中文教育中文水平等级标准, 中华人民共和国教育部, MIT