Kanji Detail for 磕 - "sound, strike, kowtow"

磕

Non-Jōyō Kanji

Meaning
磕 means "sound, strike, kowtow."
1. Sound - The sound of stones colliding.
2. Sound - The sound of a drum.
3. Strike - To hit; to beat.
4. Kowtow - To prostrate oneself with forehead touching the ground.
Dictionary Citations
The meaning above is based on the following sources:

KANJIDIC2 A comprehensive Japanese-English kanji dictionary

hit; collide; knock into; sound

Unihan Unicode Han Database for CJK characters

hit; collide, knock into; sound

CC-CEDICT A Chinese-English dictionary

to tap; to knock (against sth hard); to knock (mud from boots, ashes from a pipe etc)

Make Me a Hanzi Open-source Chinese character data

to collide, to hit, to knock, to tap

XSZD Xuéshēng Zìdiǎn (學生字典) - Student's Dictionary

Stones striking each other. | Colloquially, kowtowing is called 磕頭. Pronounced like 克.
Onyomi

kachi

kai(かい)

katsu(かつ)

koh(こう)
Kunyomi
none
Strokes

15 strokes
Radical

石 (ishi・ishihen)
Related Keywords
sound stones colliding drum strike hit beat kowtow prostrate oneself forehead touching ground