敲

敲 (Kangxi radical 66, 攴+10, 14 strokes, cangjie input 卜月卜水 (YBYE), four-corner 0124₇, composition ⿰高攴)

• 𡁞

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 474, character 31
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 13337
• Dae Jaweon: page 828, character 14
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1471, character 11
• Unihan data for U+6572

Historical forms of the character 敲
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *kʰraːw, *kʰraːws): phonetic 高 (OC *kaːw) + semantic 攴 (“to hit lightly; to tap”).

敲

1. to hit; to strike; to tap; to rap; to knock

   他敲了門。／他敲了门。  ―  Tā qiāo le mén.  ―  He knocked on the door.

   剛剛敲過了八點鐘，不是嗎？
   刚刚敲过了八点钟，不是吗？

   Gānggāng qiāo guò le bādiǎnzhōng, bù shì ma?

   It has just struck eight, hasn't it?

2. (colloquial) to rip off; to overcharge; to blackmail

   那家旅館敲觀光客的竹杠。
   那家旅馆敲观光客的竹杠。

   Nà jiā lǚguǎn qiāo guānguāngkè de zhúgàng.

   That hotel rips off the tourists.

   他們敲了你多少錢？
   他们敲了你多少钱？

   Tāmen qiāo le nǐ duōshào qián?

   How much did they screw you for?

3. (colloquial) to criticize; to warn
4. (Hokkien, Singapore Teochew) to call someone (by phone); to telephone

   我昨日敲予先生。

   Góa chǎ-li̍t khà hō͘ sian-siⁿ.

   I called the teacher yesterday (on the phone).

5. (Xiamen, Quanzhou and Zhangzhou Hokkien) to knock down; to remove; to demolish
6. (Taiwanese Hokkien) to alter (clothes)
7. (Zhangzhou Hokkien) to compete (among businesses)

• (to hit):

• (to rip off):

From 休 (MC xjuw, “to rest; to stop”) (Kwok and Kataoka, 2006). Compare Guangzhou 嘵／哓 (hiu1), which has become obsolete.

敲

1. (Macau and Dongguan Cantonese) Used after a verb to indicate perfective aspect (action completion).
   • 2021 October 21, 澳門畢家四姐妹 , 【呢啲係咩方言?!】教你講正宗澳門土生「葡式中文」 ‎, spoken by 畢美淇 :

     因為我哋係用敲葡文音
     因为我哋系用敲葡文音

     jan¹ wai⁶ ngo⁵ dei⁶ hai⁶ jung⁶ hau¹ pou⁴ man^4-2 jam¹

     Because we used the Portuguese pronunciation

• Dictionary of Chinese Character Variants (教育部異體字字典), A01736
• “敲”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎, 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–

(Hyōgai kanji)

1. to knock, to strike, to hit

• Go-on: きょう (kyō)^{←けう (keu, historical)}
• Kan-on: こう (kō)^{←かう (kau, historical)}
• Kun: たたく (tataku, 敲く)
• Nanori: たかし (takashi)、のぼる (noboru)

敲 (eumhun 두드릴 고 (dudeuril go))

1. hanja form^? of 고 (“knock”)

敲 (eumhun 두드릴 교 (dudeuril gyo))

1. hanja form^? of 교 (“knock”)

敲 (eumhun 두드릴 학 (dudeuril hak))

1. hanja form^? of 학 (“knock”)

敲: Hán Nôm readings: xao, xào, sao

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