磕

磕 U+78D5, 磕 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-78D5 ← 磔 [U+78D4] CJK Unified Ideographs 磖 → [U+78D6]

Translingual

Han character

磕 (Kangxi radical 112, 石+10, 15 strokes, cangjie input 一口土戈廿 (MRGIT), four-corner 1461₇, composition ⿰石盍)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 835, character 5
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 24407
• Dae Jaweon: page 1252, character 11
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2446, character 10
• Unihan data for U+78D5

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Chinese

simp. and trad.		磕
alternative forms		礚／𥕤

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 磕
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Small seal script

Characters in the same phonetic series (盍) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 

	Old Chinese
蓋	*kaːbs, *kaːb, *ɡaːb
盖	*kaːbs
溘	*kʰaːbs, *kʰoːb, *kʰaːb
搕	*qoːb
嗑	*kaːb, *ɡaːb
榼	*kʰaːb
磕	*kʰaːb, *kʰaːd
瞌	*kʰaːb
盍	*ɡaːb
闔	*ɡaːb
篕	*ɡaːb
熆	*ɡaːb
鰪	*qaːb
廅	*qaːb
圔	*qroːb
饁	*ɢrab

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *kʰaːb, *kʰaːd) : semantic 石 (“stone”) + phonetic 盍 (OC *ɡaːb).

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 磕

1. to knock sth. against a hard surface; to dash against a stone
2. to knock an item off another item by hitting them against a hard surface
3. to kowtow
4. (dialect, figurative) to fight

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Japanese

Kanji

磕

(Hyōgai kanji)

1. hit
2. collide
3. knock into

Readings

• On (unclassified): かい (kai), こう (kō), かつ (katsu), かち (kachi)

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Korean

Hanja

磕 • (gae) (hangeul 개, revised gae, McCune–Reischauer kae, Yale kay)

1. bump
2. drumbeat

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Vietnamese

Han character

磕: Hán Nôm readings: khạp

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