Chinese symbol for “hokey”

扯

chě

to pull; to tear; (of cloth, thread etc) to buy; to chat

The closest CC-CEDICT match for hokey is 扯 (chě), defined as: to pull; to tear; (of cloth, thread etc) to buy; to chat; to gossip; (coll.) (Tw) ridiculous.

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Characters and stroke order

扯 chě

to rip, to tear; to haul; casual talk

radical 64 ⼿ · 7 strokes

Related words

Other words that share a character with 扯.

Word	Pinyin	Meaning
牵扯 (牽扯)	qiān chě	to involve; to implicate; to be interrelated
胡扯	hú chě	to chatter; nonsense
扯淡	chě dàn	to talk nonsense
拉扯	lā che	to drag; to pull
瞎扯	xiā chě	to talk irresponsibly; to talk nonsense
扯皮	chě pí	to wrangle; wrangling

Data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); wordfreq (CC BY-SA 4.0 (data)). Retrieved 2026-10-22.