to hit / to strike / to tap / to rap / to knock / to rip sb off / to overcharge

= + : Someone built a skyscraper (高) in front of the aorta (ao1) without the Queen of Hearts' (qi) consent. First the Queen angrily knocks at the door using the door knocker (攴), but as no one answers she hits (敲) the door with a battering ram.

敲 character breakdown

to tap / to knock lightly / old variant of 撲|扑[pu1]

= + : Mnemonic symbol: a door knocker. Petra Penguin (pu) locked herself out of the space station (Ø1). She tries to get the others' attention by waving with a pennant (⺊) and knocking (攴) against the window with a boxing glove (又). Finally she uses a door knocker (攴) to knock on the door.
surname Gao

= + + : A skyscraper.

= + + : Just in front of the aorta, a huge skyscraper has been erected. It's an important building, so there's a control checkpoint at the entrance, and Guy Fawkes has been hired to stand guard. To make him look more dangerous, he wears a beret. However there's no-one to check, so Guy Fawkes is bored and eats a mandarin.
high / tall / above average / loud / your (honorific)

= + + : A skyscraper.

= + + : Just in front of the aorta, a huge skyscraper has been erected. It's an important building, so there's a control checkpoint at the entrance, and Guy Fawkes has been hired to stand guard. To make him look more dangerous, he wears a beret. However there's no-one to check, so Guy Fawkes is bored and eats a mandarin.

Characters with 敲 as component

敲 is not used as a component in another character.

Words with 敲

to knock on a door
to rip off / to extort (money) / extortion / blackmail
extortion and blackmail (idiom)
extortion by taking advantage of sb's weakness
to back sb up / to support sb in an argument / (lit. to beat nearby drum)
to sound a bell / (of a clock) to chime
to beat a gong
to strike the edge of the gong / (fig.) to stir the pot (i.e. cause or exacerbate a dispute)
to make a continual banging sound / (fig.) to provoke with words
to press (fruit) / variant of 敲詐|敲诈[qiao1 zha4]
back-knocking massage

Sentences with 敲

敲 currently does not appear in any sentence.