劫
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to rob; to plunder; to seize by force; to coerce; calamity; abbr. for kalpa 劫波[jie2 bo1]
- HSK 3.0
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- Old HSK
- Level 6
- Strokes
- 7
- Radical
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- Structure
- Left–right 左右
- Traditional
- 劫
- Common rank
- #1,636
- Unicode
- U+52AB
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Formation & memory
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Words with 劫
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| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 万劫不复 | consigned to eternal damnation; with no hope of reprieve | |
| 洗劫一空 | to steal everything | |
| 劫后余生 | (idiom) to be a survivor of a calamity | |
| 空中劫持 | to hijack (a plane); aircraft hijacking; skyjacking | |
| 打家劫舍 | to break into a house for robbery (idiom) | |
| 乘火打劫 | to take advantage of sb's misfortune; to loot | |
| 逃过一劫 | (idiom) to survive a calamity; to get through a crisis | |
| 劫数难逃 | Destiny is inexorable, there is no fleeing it (idiom). Your doom is at hand. | |
| 红羊劫 | national disaster (ancient astrological allusion) | |
| 劫机 | hijacking; air piracy | |
| 劫道 | to kidnap; to hijack | |
| 劫车 | to carjack; carjacking | |
| 劫数 | predestined fate (Buddhism) | |
| 打劫 | to loot; to rob; to plunder; to ransack | |
| 劫色 | to sexually assault | |
| 劫持者 | hijacker; kidnapper | |
| 劫波 | kalpa (loanword) (Hinduism) | |
| 劫难 | calamity | |
| 劫富济贫 | (idiom) to rob the rich to help the poor | |
| 劫杀 | to rob and kill |
Sound family
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