劫 - Dong Chinese dictionary

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jié

take by force

Phonosemantic compound. 力 represents the meaning and 去 represents the sound. Simplified form of 刦.

Components

力 Meaning component

lì

power

去 Sound component

qù

go away

Evolution

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Regular script

Modern

Definitions

劫

jié

take by force, coerce; disaster; to rob; to plunder; to seize by force; to coerce; calamity; abbr. for kalpa 劫波[jiébō]

劫 (刧)

jié

variant of 劫[jié]

Most common words with 劫

Freq.	Word	Meaning
	抢劫	to rob
	劫	to rob
	劫持	to kidnap
	劫匪	bandit
	打劫	to loot

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese	Middle Chinese	Pinyin	Gloss
*k(r)ap	kjaep	jié	rob

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 19.9103% of movies

1221st most common character in movies

1825th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes	7
Unicode	U+52AB
Shuowen	“劫，人欲去以力脅止曰劫。或曰：以力止去曰劫。”

Sources

MTSU Chinese text computing

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