击
to hit / to strike / to break / Taiwan pr. [ji2]
击
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凵
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扌
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Joan of Arc (ji) locked herself out of the space station again. In front of the space station (Ø1) she tries to break (击) the door open using her electric mortar (击). The mortar has to be a few meters away from the door but the receptacle (凵) for its cord is right next to the door, so Joan of Arc plugs the mortar in using a toy claw (扌).
击 character breakdown
receptacle
Mnemonic symbol: receptacle as in wall plug.
Karl Marx (k) wants to recharge his phone in the anthill's living room (an3), but he can't find a receptacle (凵).
Karl Marx (k) wants to recharge his phone in the anthill's living room (an3), but he can't find a receptacle (凵).
Characters with 击 as component
Words with 击
to beat the drum and sound the gong (idiom); fig. to order an advance or retreat / to egg people on or to call them back
beat the drum, pass the flower (game in which players sit in a circle passing a flower around while a drum is beaten – when the drumbeat stops, the player holding the flower must sing a song, answer a question, or drink a glass of wine etc)
Sentences with 击
击 currently does not appear in any sentence.