磕 - Dong Chinese dictionary

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kē, kè

hit

Phonosemantic compound. 石 represents the meaning and 盍 represents the sound.

Components

石 Meaning component

shí, dàn

stone

盍 Sound component

hé

what? why not?

Evolution

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)

Regular script

Modern

Definitions

kē

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

kè

variant of 嗑[kè]

Most common words with 磕

Freq.	Word	Meaning
	磕	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

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 3.2837% of movies

2655th most common character in movies

2991st most common character in books

Miscellaneous

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