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Kanji Detail for 敲 - "knock, whip"
敲
- Meaning
敲 means "knock, whip."
Knock - To strike; to tap; to beat audibly.
Whip - To strike with a lash.
- Dictionary Citations
The meaning above is based on the following sources:
KANJIDIC2 A comprehensive Japanese-English kanji dictionary
strike; beat; hit
Unihan Unicode Han Database for CJK characters
strike, beat, pound, hammer; rap
CC-CEDICT A Chinese-English dictionary
to hit; to strike; to tap; to rap; to knock; to rip sb off; to overcharge
Make Me a Hanzi Open-source Chinese character data
to hammer, to pound, to strike
XSZD Xuéshēng Zìdiǎn (學生字典) - Student's Dictionary
To knock. Jia Dao had the line "a monk knocking at the moonlit gate." Originally intended as "pushing." Decided by Han Yu. See (Anecdotes of Sui and Tang). Now, deliberating matters is 推敲, based on this.
- Onyomi
- Kunyomi
- Strokes
- Radical
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