劫

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to rob; to plunder; to seize by force; to coerce; calamity; abbr. for kalpa 劫波[jie2 bo1]

7 strokes Dict coverage rank #1,636 U+52AB

Phono-semantic compound (形声字)

力 (semantic, “strength”) + 去 (phonetic, qù)

components: 去力

plunder · Heisig RSH #1987

去 go + muscle

Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.

Phonetic series: characters sharing the sound component 去

Siblings built with the same phonetic component 去 (qù) — compare how they read:

Character	Pinyin	Meaning
去 sound component	qù	to go away, to leave, to depart
却	què	still, but; decline; retreat
怯	qiè	afraid, lacking in courage
佉	qū	the name of a divine being; surname
珐	fà	enamel, cloissoné
砝	fǎ	a standard weight (as for a balance)

Word	Pinyin	Meaning
万劫不复	wàn jié bù fù	consigned to eternal damnation; with no hope of reprieve
洗劫一空	xǐ jié yī kōng	to steal everything
劫后余生	jié hòu yú shēng	(idiom) to be a survivor of a calamity
空中劫持	kōng zhōng jié chí	to hijack (a plane); aircraft hijacking; skyjacking
打家劫舍	dǎ jiā jié shè	to break into a house for robbery (idiom)
乘火打劫	chéng huǒ dǎ jié	to take advantage of sb's misfortune; to loot
逃过一劫	táo guò yī jié	(idiom) to survive a calamity; to get through a crisis
劫数难逃	jié shù nán táo	Destiny is inexorable, there is no fleeing it (idiom). Your doom is at hand.
红羊劫	hóng yáng jié	national disaster (ancient astrological allusion)
劫机	jié jī	hijacking; air piracy
劫道	jié dào	to kidnap; to hijack
劫车	jié chē	to carjack; carjacking
劫数	jié shù	predestined fate (Buddhism)
打劫	dǎ jié	to loot; to rob; to plunder; to ransack
劫色	jié sè	to sexually assault
劫持者	jié chí zhě	hijacker; kidnapper
劫波	jié bō	kalpa (loanword) (Hinduism)
劫难	jié nàn	calamity
劫富济贫	jié fù jì pín	(idiom) to rob the rich to help the poor
劫杀	jié shā	to rob and kill