踢
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to kick; to play (e.g. soccer); (slang) butch (in a lesbian relationship)
- HSK 3.0
- Level 6
- Old HSK
- Level 2
- Strokes
- 15
- Radical
- 足 +8
- Structure
- Left–right 左右
- Traditional
- 踢
- Common rank
- #2,653
- Unicode
- U+8E22
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Formation & memory
Break the character into parts you already know.
Words with 踢
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 连踢带打 | to kick and beat | |
| 踢皮球 | to kick a ball around; (fig.) to mutually shirk responsibility; to pass the buck | |
| 踢脚线 | skirting board | |
| 拳打脚踢 | lit. to punch and kick (idiom); to beat up; fig. determined to sort out a problem | |
| 二踢脚 | double-bang firecracker (which explodes once on the ground and then a second time in the a… | |
| 踢脚板 | baseboard; skirting board | |
| 踢马刺 | horse spur | |
| 批踢踢实业坊 | PTT Bulletin Board System (Tw) | |
| 踢踏舞 | tap dance | |
| 踢爆 | to reveal; to expose | |
| 踢馆 | to challenge an established martial arts school to a fight (to prove one's skills or gain … | |
| 踢腿 | to kick; to do a kick (in dancing, martial arts etc) | |
| 踢拳 | kickboxing | |
| 挨踢 | information technology (IT) (loanword) | |
| 批踢踢 | PTT, the largest terminal-based bulletin board system in Taiwan; full name: 批踢踢實業坊|批踢踢实业坊[… | |
| 趴踢 | (loanword) party |
Sound family
Characters sharing the sound component 易 — compare how they read.