Keyword
to rob
- to take by force
- to coerce
- disaster
- misfortune
- Frequency
- #1736
- Strokes
- 7
Readings
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Mnemonic
力 (strength) gives the meaning and 去 the sound.
Stroke order
Composed of
Used in vocabulary
抢劫
to rob; looting
劫
to rob; to plunder; to seize by force; to coerce; calamity; abbr. for kalpa 劫波 (jiébō)
劫持
to kidnap; to hijack; to abduct; to hold under duress
洗劫
to loot; to ransack; to pillage
浩劫
calamity; catastrophe; apocalypse
打劫
to loot; to rob; to plunder; to ransack
劫匪
bandit; robber
劫掠
to loot; to plunder
抢劫案
robbery; holdup
劫机
hijacking; air piracy
劫难
calamity
万劫不复
consigned to eternal damnation; with no hope of reprieve
趁火打劫
(lit.) to loot a burning house (idiom); (fig.) to take advantage of sb's misfortune
逃过一劫
(idiom) to survive a calamity; to get through a crisis
劫车
to carjack; carjacking
洗劫一空
to steal everything
劫富济贫
(idiom) to rob the rich to help the poor
劫狱
to break into jail; to forcibly release prisoners
劫数
predestined fate (Buddhism)
骑劫
to hijack (an airplane, motor vehicle, social media account, discussion etc)
抢劫罪
robbery
劫后余生
(idiom) to be a survivor of a calamity
劫夺
to seize by force; to abduct
劫杀
to rob and kill