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Mythic Mandarin

磕 (kē): meaning and stroke order

磕 (kē) means to tap, to knock (against sth hard), to knock (mud from boots, ashes from a pipe etc).

磕

Simplified
磕
Traditional
磕 (same form)
Pinyin
kē · kè

Stroke order of 磕

磕

  • kē to tap; to knock (against sth hard)
  • kè variant of 嗑[ke4]
  • 15 strokes

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 磕

  1. kē
    • to tap
    • to knock (against sth hard)
    • to knock (mud from boots, ashes from a pipe etc)
  2. kè
    • variant of 嗑[ke4]

Radical and structure

磕
Radical 石 (Kangxi radical 112) · 15 strokes · 石 on the left, 盍 on the right

Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan database. Structure: the shapes a character is written with (BabelStone IDS), not necessarily parts that carry meaning or sound.

磕 in our stories

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  • 悟空跪在地上，向师父磕了三个头，眼泪在眼睛里打转，却一句辩解的话都没说。

    Wùkōng guì zài dì shàng xiàng shīfu kē le sān gè tóu yǎnlèi zài yǎnjing lǐ dǎzhuàn què yí jù biànjiě de huà dōu méi shuō

    Wukong knelt, kowtowed three times to his master with tears welling in his eyes, and said not a single word in his own defence.

    From the story Monkey strikes the White Bone Demon three times HSK 6

Stories using 磕

Dictionary data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Stroke data: Hanzi Writer data, derived from Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License). Animation: Hanzi Writer (MIT licence). Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan (Unicode License v3).