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打劫

dǎ jié

2-character word

What 打劫 means

1. to loot
2. to rob
3. to plunder
4. to ransack

The characters in 打劫

• 打dǎa semantically light, transitive verb that is combined with various grammatical objects…
• 劫jiéto rob; to plunder; to seize by force

Example sentences

• 汤姆被打劫了。
  Tāngmǔ bèi dǎjié le.
  Tom was mugged.

Words containing 打劫

• 趁火打劫chèn huǒ dǎ jié(lit.) to loot a burning house (idiom); (fig.) to take advantage of sb's misfortune
• 乘火打劫chéng huǒ dǎ jiéto take advantage of sb's misfortune; to loot

Sounds the same

Read dǎ jié, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 打结to tie a knot; to tie