(jī) - strike, hit in Mandarin
jīTraditional: 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
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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