踢
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to kick; to play (e.g. soccer); (slang) butch (in a lesbian relationship)
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How 踢 is formed
Phono-semantic compound (形声字)
足 (semantic, “foot”) + 易 (phonetic, yì)
How to remember it
kick · Heisig RSH #2327
wooden leg + 易 easy
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Phonetic series: characters sharing the sound component 易
Siblings built with the same phonetic component 易 (yì) — compare how they read:
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 易 sound component | yì | to change; to exchange, to trade; simple, easy |
| 锡 | xī | tin; to bestow, to confer |
| 赐 | cì | to give; to bestow a favor; to appoint |
| 剔 | tī | to pick out; to scrape off; picky |
| 惕 | tì | cautious, careful, alert |
| 蜴 | yì | lizard |
| 埸 | yì | border, limit, frontier; dike |
Words containing 踢
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 连踢带打 | lián tī dài dǎ | to kick and beat |
| 踢皮球 | tī pí qiú | to kick a ball around; (fig.) to mutually shirk responsibility; to pass the buck |
| 踢脚线 | tī jiǎo xiàn | skirting board |
| 拳打脚踢 | quán dǎ jiǎo tī | lit. to punch and kick (idiom); to beat up; fig. determined to sort out a problem |
| 二踢脚 | èr tī jiǎo | double-bang firecracker (which explodes once on the ground and then a second time in the a… |
| 踢脚板 | tī jiǎo bǎn | baseboard; skirting board |
| 踢马刺 | tī mǎ cì | horse spur |
| 批踢踢实业坊 | Pī tī tī Shí yè Fāng | PTT Bulletin Board System (Tw) |
| 踢踏舞 | tī tà wǔ | tap dance |
| 踢爆 | tī bào | to reveal; to expose |
| 踢馆 | tī guǎn | to challenge an established martial arts school to a fight (to prove one's skills or gain … |
| 踢腿 | tī tuǐ | to kick; to do a kick (in dancing, martial arts etc) |
| 踢拳 | tī quán | kickboxing |
| 挨踢 | āi tī | information technology (IT) (loanword) |
| 批踢踢 | Pī tī tī | PTT, the largest terminal-based bulletin board system in Taiwan; full name: 批踢踢實業坊|批踢踢实业坊[… |
| 趴踢 | pā ti | (loanword) party |