擊

See also 击, and 撃

Translingual

shinjitai	撃
simplified	击
traditional	擊

Etymology

Phono-semantic compound (形聲): semantic 手 (“hand”) + phonetic 毄 – to strike with the hand.

Han character

擊 (radical 64 手+13, 16 strokes, cangjie input 十水手 (JEQ), four-corner 5750₂)

1. strike, hit, beat
2. attack, fight

References

• KangXi: page 458, character 9
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 12800
• Dae Jaweon: page 806, character 25
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 3, page 1965, character 6
• Unihan data for U+64CA

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Cantonese

Hanzi

擊 (simplified 击, Yale gik1)

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Japanese

Kanji

擊

Readings

• On: げき (geki), けき (keki)
• Kun: うつ (utsu)

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Korean

Hanja

擊 (hangeul 격, revised gyeok, McCune-Reischauer kyŏk, Yale kyek)

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Mandarin

Hanzi

擊 (simplified 击, pinyin jī (ji1), jí (ji2), Wade-Giles chi¹, chi²)

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Vietnamese

Han character

擊 (kích, kếch, ghếch)