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磕

kē

HSK 6 Character

What 磕 means

1. to tap; to knock (against sth hard); (esp.) to knock (mud from boots, ash from a pipe etc)
2. (fandom slang) to be into (a character relationship, dynamic, or trope)

Other readings

磕 is 多音字 — it is read more than one way, and the reading changes the meaning.

• kèvariant of {嗑|kè}

Example sentences

• 他磕碎了下巴，掉了几颗牙。
  Tā kē suì le xiàba, diào le jǐ kē yá.
  He got a broken jaw and lost some teeth.

Words starting with 磕

• 磕头kē tóuto kowtow…
• 磕磕绊绊kē ke bàn bànbumpy (of a road); limping (of a person)
• 磕碰kē pèngto knock against; to bump into; to have a disagreement
• 磕磕kē kē(onomatopoeia) knocking
• 磕糖kē táng(slang) to revel in the sight of one's favorite couple being affectionate…
• 磕膝盖kē xī gài(dialect) knee
• 磕磕巴巴kē kē bā bāstammering; stuttering; not speaking fluently
• 磕头如捣蒜kè tóu rú dǎo suànlit. to kowtow like grinding garlic (idiom); fig. to pound the ground with one's head
• 磕碜kē chen(dialect) ugly; unsightly; shabby; (dialect) to humiliate; to ridicule
• 磕CPkē CP(slang) to ship a fictional couple; to enthusiastically support a romantic pairing…

Words containing 磕

• 死磕sǐ kē(colloquial) to fight to the death

Characters built on 盍

These share the phonetic component 盍 (hé), which is why their readings rhyme. Learning them as a family is far cheaper than learning them one at a time.

• 嗑kèto crack (seeds) between one's teeth
• 瞌kēused in 瞌睡
• 阖hédoor; to close; whole
• 溘kèsuddenly

Characters that look like 磕

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

• 碳tàncarbon (chemistry)
• 磅bàngscale (instrument for weighing); to weigh; (loanword) pound…
• 辘lùused in 辘辘; used in 轱辘; used in 辘轳
• 蜢měnggrasshopper
• 镊niè(bound form) tweezers; to use tweezers…
• 碴cháfault; glass fragment; quarrel

Sounds the same

Read kē, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 科branch of study; administrative section; division
• 棵classifier for trees, cabbages, plants etc
• 颗classifier for small spheres, pearls, corn grains, teeth, hearts, satellites etc
• 柯(literary) branch; stem; stalk; (literary) ax handle
• 珂jade-like stone
• 苛severe; exacting
• 窠nest
• 瞌used in 瞌睡
• 钶columbium
• 坷used in 坷垃
• 蝌used in 蝌蚪
• 稞(wheat)