kē, kè
hit
Phonosemantic compound. 石 represents the meaning and 盍 represents the sound.
Evolution

Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Most common words with 磕
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
---|---|---|
to tap | ||
to kowtow (traditional greeting, esp. to a superior, involving kneeling and pressing one's forehead to the ground) | ||
bumpy (of a road) | ||
to knock against | ||
(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
Strokes | 15 |
Unicode | U+78D5 |
Shuowen | “磕,石聲。从石,盍聲。” |
Sources
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