Kilo Lingo

(jī) - strike, hit in Mandarin

Traditional: 击

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Translation

strike, hit

Word origin

Strike or hit (traditional 擊). The full form pairs the hand radical 手 with a phonetic element depicting a blow; the simplified 击 keeps a reduced form of that striking element.

Origin
phono-semantic
Root
手 (hand radical) + phonetic element (traditional 擊)

Stroke order

Stroke order for 击

Examples

He was attacked.

The attack was very sudden.

They defeated their opponent.

He struck once with force.

He hits the ball with force.

击 (jī) means strike or hit, most familiar as the second half of 攻击 (gōng jī), attack.

Appears in 2 words

Multi-character compounds in the corpus that contain 击.

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This word is part of lesson 108.