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敲

qiāo

HSK 4 Character

What 敲 means

1. to hit
2. to strike
3. to tap
4. to rap
5. to knock
6. to rip sb off
7. to overcharge

Example sentences

• 请敲门。
  Please knock on the door.
• 他敲了门。
  He knocked on the door.
• 谁在敲门？
  Who's knocking on the door?
• 当幸福敲门时
  Dāng xìngfú qiāomén shí
  When happiness comes knocking at your door.
• 有人敲门了。
  Someone knocked on the door.
• 有人在敲门。
  Someone's knocking at the door.

Words starting with 敲

• 敲门qiāo ménto knock on a door
• 敲打qiāo dǎto beat sb; to beat (a drum)
• 敲响qiāo xiǎngto sound a bell; to raise the alarm
• 敲诈qiāo zhàto rip off; to extort (money); extortion
• 敲击qiāo jīto pound; to rap
• 敲定qiāo dìngto come to a decision; to fix on (a date etc); to determine
• 敲诈勒索qiāo zhà lè suǒextortion and blackmail (idiom)
• 敲入qiāo rùto key in; to input
• 敲碗qiāo wǎn(neologism; slang) to impatiently await
• 敲背qiāo bèiback-knocking massage
• 敲钟qiāo zhōngto sound a bell; (of a clock) to chime
• 敲开qiāo kāito get sth open by tapping or striking it…
• 敲中背qiāo zhōng bèito receive oral sex from a prostitute
• 敲丧钟qiāo sāng zhōnga knell
• 敲大背qiāo dà bèito have sex with a prostitute
• 敲小背qiāo xiǎo bèito be masturbated by a prostitute
• 敲诈罪qiāo zhà zuìextortion
• 敲边鼓qiāo biān gǔto back sb up; to support sb in an argument; (lit. to beat nearby drum)
• 敲门砖qiāo mén zhuānlit. a brick as a door knocker (idiom); fig. a temporary expedient…
• 敲山震虎qiāo shān zhèn hǔa deliberate show of strength as a warning
• 敲敲打打qiāo qiāo dǎ dǎto make a continual banging sound; (fig.) to provoke with words
• 敲钉钻脚qiāo dīng zuān jiǎoto make doubly sure (idiom)
• 敲竹杠qiāo zhú gàngextortion by taking advantage of sb's weakness
• 敲榨qiāo zhàto press (fruit); variant of 敲诈

Words containing 敲

• 推敲tuī qiāoto think over
• 旁敲侧击páng qiāo cè jīto make insinuations; to take an indirect approach (in making inquiries) (idiom)
• 盎盂相敲àng yú xiāng qiāo(idiom) to quarrel
• 零打碎敲líng dǎ suì qiāoto do things in bits and pieces (idiom); piecemeal work
• 零敲碎打líng qiāo suì dǎto do things in bits and pieces (idiom); piecemeal work
• 不做亏心事，不怕鬼敲门bù zuò kuī xīn shì , bù pà guǐ qiāo ménhe who never wrongs others does not fear the knock in the night…
• 平生不做亏心事，半夜敲门心不惊píng shēng bù zuò kuī xīn shì , bàn yè qiāo mén xīn bù jīngHe who never wrongs others does not fear the knock in the night.…

Characters that look like 敲

Easy to confuse on sight. Compare them side by side once and the pair stops costing you.

• 数shùnumber; figure; several; a few
• 鼓gǔdrum; to drum; to strike
• 献xiànto offer; to present; to dedicate
• 蔽bìto cover; to shield; to screen
• 觐jìn(history) to have an audience with the Emperor
• 龊chuòused in 龌龊

Sounds the same

Read qiāo, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 悄used in 悄悄
• 雀a freckle; lentigo
• 跷to raise one's foot; to stand on tiptoe; stilts
• 锹shovel; spade
• 橇sled; sleigh
• 硗stony soil
• 缲hem with invisible stitches
• 墝stony soil
• 骹shank (the leg from knee to ankle); leg (from hip to ankle); (horse anatomy) pastern
• 劁to neuter livestock
• 橾old variant of 锹