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擊

jī

strike

Phonosemantic compound. 毄 represents the sound and 手 represents the meaning.

Components
毄 sound,meaning component

毄  Sound Meaning component

jī

  

to hit against

手 meaning component

手  Meaning component

shǒu

  

hand

Evolution

擊 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
擊 Clerical script Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)

Clerical script

Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
擊 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
擊 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

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

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

击 (擊) 

jī

strike, hit, beat; attack, fight; to hit; to strike; to break; Taiwan pr. [jí]

Most common words with 擊
Freq.
Word
Meaning

攻击

to attack

击

to hit

袭击

raid

打击

to hit

击败

to defeat

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*kˤik

kek

jī

strike (v.)


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 67.7078% of movies

412th most common character in movies

395th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

17

Simplified

击

Unicode

U+64CA

Shuowen

“擊，攴也。从手，聲。”


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