Chinese word dictionary

死磕

sǐ kē · (coll.) to fight to the death

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Word information

Simplified死磕

Traditional死磕

Pinyinsǐ kē

Part of speechDictionary

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HSK 2.0Not listed

Character breakdown

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死sǐ

dead; death; impassable, inflexible

磕kē

to collide, to hit, to knock, to tap

How to learn 死磕

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Words with the same characters

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死sǐ

to die; impassable; uncrossable; inflexible; rigid; extremely; damned

死亡sǐwáng

to die; death

救死扶伤jiùsǐ-fúshāng

to help the dying and heal the injured

磕kē

to tap; to knock (against sth hard); to knock (mud from boots, ashes from a pipe etc)

生死shēngsǐ

life or death

死心sǐxīn

to give up; to admit failure; to drop the matter; to reconcile oneself to loss; to have no more illusions about