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Old Wade-Giles romanization used only in Taiwan.
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Characters Pronunciation
Romanization
Simple Dictionary Definition

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    ke4
k`o
    ko
variant of 嗑[ke4]

磕碰

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kē pèng
    ke1 peng4
k`o p`eng
    ko peng
to knock against; to bump into; to have a disagreement; to clash

磕磕

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kē kē
    ke1 ke1
k`o k`o
    ko ko
(onom.) knocking

磕磣


磕碜

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kē chen
    ke1 chen5
k`o ch`en
    ko chen
(dialect) ugly; unsightly; shabby; (dialect) to humiliate; to ridicule

磕糖

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kē táng
    ke1 tang2
k`o t`ang
    ko tang
(slang) to revel in the sight of one's favorite couple being affectionate; to lap it up when one sees a couple whom one ships kissing or cuddling

磕頭


磕头

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kē tóu
    ke1 tou2
k`o t`ou
    ko tou
to kowtow (traditional greeting, esp. to a superior, involving kneeling and pressing one's forehead to the ground)

死磕

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sǐ kē
    si3 ke1
ssu k`o
    ssu ko
(coll.) to fight to the death

衆磕


众磕

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zhòng kē
    zhong4 ke1
chung k`o
    chung ko
 shukai
(Skt. Saṃghāta)

磕膝蓋


磕膝盖

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kē xī gài
    ke1 xi1 gai4
k`o hsi kai
    ko hsi kai
(dialect) knee

磕磕巴巴

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kē kē bā bā
    ke1 ke1 ba1 ba1
k`o k`o pa pa
    ko ko pa pa
stammering; stuttering; not speaking fluently

磕磕絆絆


磕磕绊绊

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kē ke bàn bàn
    ke1 ke5 ban4 ban4
k`o k`o pan pan
    ko ko pan pan
bumpy (of a road); limping (of a person)

磕頭如搗蒜


磕头如捣蒜

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kè tóu rú dǎo suàn
    ke4 tou2 ru2 dao3 suan4
k`o t`ou ju tao suan
    ko tou ju tao suan
lit. to kowtow like grinding garlic (idiom); fig. to pound the ground with one's head

Entries with 2nd row of characters: The 2nd row is Simplified Chinese.

This page contains 12 results for "磕" in Chinese and/or Japanese.



Information about this dictionary:

Apparently, we were the first ones who were crazy enough to think that western people might want a combined Chinese, Japanese, and Buddhist dictionary.

A lot of westerners can't tell the difference between Chinese and Japanese - and there is a reason for that. Chinese characters and even whole words were borrowed by Japan from the Chinese language in the 5th century. Much of the time, if a word or character is used in both languages, it will have the same or a similar meaning. However, this is not always true. Language evolves, and meanings independently change in each language.

Example: The Chinese character 湯 for soup (hot water) has come to mean bath (hot water) in Japanese. They have the same root meaning of "hot water", but a 湯屋 sign on a bathhouse in Japan would lead a Chinese person to think it was a "soup house" or a place to get a bowl of soup. See this: Japanese Bath House

This dictionary uses the EDICT and CC-CEDICT dictionary files.
EDICT data is the property of the Electronic Dictionary Research and Development Group, and is used in conformance with the Group's license.

Chinese Buddhist terms come from Dictionary of Chinese Buddhist Terms by William Edward Soothill and Lewis Hodous. This is commonly referred to as "Soothill's'". It was first published in 1937 (and is now off copyright so we can use it here). Some of these definitions may be misleading, incomplete, or dated, but 95% of it is good information. Every professor who teaches Buddhism or Eastern Religion has a copy of this on their bookshelf. We incorporated these 16,850 entries into our dictionary database ourselves (it was lot of work).



Combined, these cover 1,007,753 Japanese, Chinese, and Buddhist characters, words, idioms, names, placenames, and short phrases.

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