Chinese Character Wiki

劫

jié

take by force

Phonosemantic compound. 力 represents the meaning and 去 represents the sound. Simplified form of 刦.

Components
力 meaning component

力  Meaning component

lì

  

power

去 sound component

去  Sound component

qù

  

go away

Evolution

劫 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
劫 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
劫 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

劫  

jié

take by force, coerce; disaster; to rob; to plunder; to seize by force; to coerce; calamity; abbr. for kalpa 劫波[jié​bō]

劫 (刦) 

jié

variant of 劫[jié]

Most common words with 劫
Freq.
Word
Meaning

抢劫

to rob

劫

to rob

劫持

to kidnap

劫匪

bandit

打劫

to loot

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*k(r)ap

kjaep

jié

rob


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 19.9103% of movies

1221st most common character in movies

1825th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

7

Unicode

U+52AB

Shuowen

“劫，人欲去以力脅止曰劫。或曰：以力止去曰劫。”


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