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Chinese dictionary
- 1
v.knock; beat; rap
有人在敲窗户。
Somebody is knocking on the window.
午夜的钟声敲响了。
The clock struck midnight.
时钟被敲了三下。
The clock struck three times.
- 2
v.infmlovercharge; fleece
出租车司机敲了他的竹杠。
The taxi driver overcharged him.
有的小贩一听顾客是外地口音，往往就要狠狠地敲他们一下子。
When hearing the customers' foreign accents, some peddlers will greatly overcharge them.
他们敲了你多少钱啊？
How much did they sting you for?
Words and phrases with 敲
- 敲衣槌[word]fulling stock
- 敲门砖[word]brick picked up to knock on the door and thrown away when it has served its purpose
- 敲落[word]knock-off
- 敲小鼓[word]beat a little drum
- 敲长鼓[word]tom-tom
- 敲竹杠[word]fleece
- 敲定[word]decide
- 敲击[word]beat
- 敲边鼓[word]speak or act to assist somebody from the sidelines
- 敲骨吸髓[idiom]break the bones and suck the marrow
- 敲锣打鼓[idiom]beat drums and gongs
- 敲诈勒索[idiom]blackmail
- 敲敲打打[idiom]provoke with words
- 敲山震虎[idiom]beat around the mountain to scare the tiger