踢 (tī): to kick
踢 (tī) is a Chinese character meaning “to kick.” Classified as HSK Level 2 (HSK 3.0 Standard, CLEC 2022), it is composed of 足 (semantic) and 易 (phonetic). It ranks #2364 in character frequency (SUBTLEX-CH corpus).
Etymologically derived, 踢 foot. Its radical form 足 (foot) appears in many related characters such as 跑 (pǎo, to run), 跟 (gēn, follow, heel), 路 (lù, road).
Definitions
- to kick
Etymology & Origin
Stroke Order
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Words & Compounds
Common Compounds
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 踢踏舞 | tī tà wǔ | tap dance |
| 踢腿 | tī tuǐ | to kick |
| 拳打脚踢 | quán dǎ jiǎo tī | lit. to punch and kick (idiom) |
| 踢皮球 | tī pí qiú | to kick a ball around |
| 连踢带打 | lián tī dài dǎ | to kick and beat (idiom) |
| 二踢脚 | èr tī jiǎo | double-bang firecracker (which explodes once on the ground and then a second time in the air after being propelled up... |
| 踢脚线 | tī jiǎo xiàn | skirting board |
| 踢马刺 | tī mǎ cì | horse spur |
| 踢脚板 | tī jiǎo bǎn | baseboard |
| 批踢踢实业坊 | pī tī tī shí yè fāng | PTT Bulletin Board System (Tw) |
| 踢馆 | tī guǎn | to challenge an established martial arts school to a fight (to prove one's skills or gain reputation) |
| 踢爆 | tī bào | to reveal |
| 批踢踢 | pī tī tī | PTT, the largest terminal-based bulletin board system in Taiwan |
| 踢拳 | tī quán | kickboxing |
| 挨踢 | āi tī | information technology (IT) (loanword) |
踢 appears in 17 compound words: 59 as the first character, 18 as the last, and 24 in a middle position. Compound statistics computed from SUBTLEX-CH and HSK 3.0 vocabulary data.
Strongest Collocations
Characters that most frequently co-occur with 踢 in natural Chinese text, ranked by NPMI (Normalized Pointwise Mutual Information) — a statistical measure of association strength.
Idioms & Chengyu (2)
Example Sentences
孩子们在操场上踢足球，玩得很开心。
Háizimen zài cāochǎng shang tī zúqiú, wán de hěn kāixīn.
The children are playing football on the playground and having a great time.
明星国中爆攻击 生控遭同学过肩摔、踢背
míng xīng guó zhōng bào gōng jī shēng kòng zāo tóng xué guò jiān shuāi , tī bèi
Star Middle School Student Allegedly Assaulted: Student Claims Classmate Performed a Shoulder Throw and Kicked Him in the Back
踢帕娱乐全新短剧《危城兄弟》3月开镜!陈峻...
tī pà yú lè quán xīn duǎn jù wēi chéng xiōng dì 3 yuè kāi jìng ! chén jùn . . .
Kick Pa Entertainment's new short drama "Dangerous City Brothers" will start filming in March! Chen Jun...
超薄旗舰踢铁板!三星高层罕见认销售不佳、下一代恐难...
chāo báo qí jiàn tī tiě bǎn ! sān xīng gāo céng hǎn jiàn rèn xiāo shòu bù jiā , xià yī dài kǒng nán . . .
Ultra-thin flagship kicks the iron plate! Samsung's top management rarely admits that sales are not good, and the next generation may be difficult...
前妻怒控婚内出轨!男星离婚8年遭毁灭踢爆“弃儿拒付赡养费”恶行
qián qī nù kòng hūn nèi chū guǐ ! nán xīng lí hūn nián zāo huǐ miè tī bào qì ér jù fù shàn yǎng fèi è háng
The ex-wife angrily accused marital cheating! The male star was divorced for 8 years and was destroyed, kicking out the evil deeds of "abandoned children refusing to pay alimony"
搭新幹線遇孩童狂踢椅背 近7成日本人選擇忍?坦言是怕「他們...
dā xīn 幹 線 yù hái tóng kuáng tī yǐ bèi jìn chéng rì běn rén 選 擇 rěn ? tǎn yán shì pà tā 們 . . .
When a child kicks the back of a seat on the new highway, nearly 70% of Japanese choose to put up with it? They said they were afraid that "they...
看那些踢球的队员们！他们真是全神贯注啊！
Kàn nàxiē tī qiú de duìyuán men! tāmen zhēnshi quánshénguànzhù ā!
Look at those guys play! They’re really getting stuck in!
他触犯会规，被踢出了俱乐部。
Tā chùfàn huì guī, bèi tī chū le jùlèbù.
He was excluded from the club for infractions of the rules.
他脚受伤了，不能再继续踢足球。
Tā jiǎo shòushāng le, bù néng zài jìxù tī zúqiú.
He hurt his foot, he can't play soccer anymore.
他们什么也没解释就把他踢出迪斯科了。
Tāmen shénme yě méi jiěshì jiù bǎ tā tī chū dísīkē le.
They kicked him out of the disco without any explanation.
Character Family
足 Radical Family — Characters sharing the foot radical
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