hit

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound.

Components
石 meaning component

  Meaning component

shídàn

  

stone

盍 sound component

  Sound component

  

what? why not?

Evolution

磕 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
磕 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

 

hit; collide, knock into; sound; to tap; to knock (against sth hard); to knock (mud from boots, ashes from a pipe etc)

 

variant of [kè]

Most common words with 磕
Freq.
Word
Meaning

to tap

磕头

to kowtow (traditional greeting, esp. to a superior, involving kneeling and pressing one's forehead to the ground)

磕磕绊绊

bumpy (of a road)

磕碰

to knock against

磕磕

(onom.) knocking