qiāo in a sentence

Knock (hit - blackmail)

Full dictionary entry HSK 4 3 sentences

敲 (qiāo) means Knock (hit - blackmail). Below are 3 sentences on this site that use it — with pinyin, an English translation and audio. All of them were written by hand; none is machine generated.

Dictionary examples

请先 门再进来。

Qǐng xiān qiāo mén zài jìnlái.

Please knock before coming in.

Dictionary example · HSK 4 ·

外面好像有人 门。

Wàimiàn hǎoxiàng yǒu rén qiāo mén.

It sounds as if someone is knocking at the door.

Dictionary example · HSK 4 ·

From the graded readers

了门,开门的是一位老先生。

wǒ qiāo le / liǎo / liào mén, kāimén de / dì shì yī wèi lǎo xiānsheng.

I knocked, and an elderly man opened the door.

Graded reader · HSK 3 · The Neighbour Upstairs

Questions about 敲

How is 敲 used in a sentence?

This page shows 3 sentences using 敲 (qiāo, "Knock (hit - blackmail)"), each with pinyin, an English translation and audio. Every one of them was written by hand for this site.

Are these sentences machine generated?

No. They come from the site's own dictionary examples, graded readers, travel phrasebook and grammar library — all written by a person. A word with no sentence gets no page here, rather than a page of invented ones.

Why do some sentences show 敲 inside a longer word?

Because that is where a single character usually lives. Seeing 敲 inside the words it builds is how the character stops being an isolated symbol and starts being something you can read.

Is 敲 an HSK word?

Yes — 敲 is on the official HSK 4 vocabulary list, and you can study it with the rest of that list on the HSK 4 page.

Where can I see the full entry for 敲?

The dictionary page for 敲 has its stroke order, its traditional form, every sense the dictionary lists and a character-by-character breakdown. It is linked at the top of this page.

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