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Pīnyīn Pronunciation
kē | ke1
English translation
to tap
to knock (against sth hard)
to knock (mud from boots, ashes from a pipe etc)
variant of [kè]
to collide, to hit, to knock, to tap

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Number of strokes

15

Traditional form

Contains the radical

Shí

Part of speech

Verb / 动词 dòng cí Dòngcí

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stone

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Type

pictophonetic

Positional decomposition

石盍

Semantic compound

Shí

Phonetic compound

Explanation

Phonosemantic compound. Shí represents the meaning and represents the sound.

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dào le 树桩 shù zhuāng shǎng , jìng le .

I barked my shin on a tree stump.

当心 dāngxīn Bié zhāo tóu ! ( Bié 碰到 pèng dào 低矮 dī aǐ de 门框 mén kuàng . )

Mind your head! eg Be careful not to hit it on the low doorway.

tiáo Liáng zhēn 危险 wēixiǎn ! lǎo de tóu .

That low beam is a menace! I keep hitting my head on it.

dàn méi lòng dǒng , 因为 yīnwèi yào 之后 zhī hòu 总是 zǒngshì yǒu 错觉 cuò jué de .

But I don't get it, because acid trips last for hours.

tuī le , 摔倒 shuāidǎo le , le 膝盖 xīgài .

I shoved him. He fell and scraped his knee.

Words with

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FrequencySimplifiedMeaningTraditional
to tap
磕头 kē tóu to kowtow (traditional greeting, esp. to a superior, involving kneeling and pressing one's forehead to the ground)磕頭
磕磕绊绊 kē ke bàn bàn bumpy (of a road)磕磕絆絆
磕碰 kē pèng to knock against磕碰 kē pèng
磕磕 kē kē (onom.) knocking磕磕 kē kē
磕头如捣蒜 kè tóu rú dǎo suàn lit. to kowtow like grinding garlic (idiom)磕頭如搗蒜

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Decomposition

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