磕
kē HSK7

hit

磕 kē
to bump verb
To knock or bump against something hard (often unintentionally)

我把头磕在门把手上。

wǒ bǎ tóu kē zài mén​bǎ​shou shang.

I hit my head on a doorknob.

to kowtow
To kowtow or touch one's forehead to the ground, especially in the phrase 磕头 kē​tóu.
to fight
(slang) To stand up to someone or go all out in a competition or confrontation.
to crack
To crack something between one's teeth, such as sunflower or melon seeds
to tap
To knock or tap something (such as a pipe or shoes) against a surface to shake out its contents
clatter
The sound of stones or hard objects hitting one another

Cross-References

See

Frequency
Character
Written text
2,991st most common 9.87 per million
Movie subtitles
2,656th most common 6.38 per million appears in 3% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
7.87 per million appears in 3% of films
Written text
5.39 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 6
HSK 3.0
Level 7
Strokes
15
Unicode
U+78D5

Sources
Frequency data
MTSU Chinese text computingSUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)