劫 — Chinese character
劫
jié
to take by force, to coerce; disaster; misfortune
- Pinyin
- jié
- Radical
- 19 ⼒ (Power)
- Strokes
- 7
- Components
- 去 力
- Formation
- pictophonetic — strength; meaning component 力; sound component 去
- Japanese
- 劫 as a kanji
Common words with 劫
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 抢劫 (搶劫) | qiǎng jié | to rob; looting |
| 劫持 | jié chí | to kidnap; to hijack |
| 洗劫 | xǐ jié | to loot; to ransack; to pillage |
| 浩劫 | hào jié | calamity; catastrophe |
| 打劫 | dǎ jié | to loot; to rob |
| 劫匪 | jié fěi | bandit; robber |
| 劫掠 | jié lüè | to loot; to plunder |
| 抢劫案 (搶劫案) | qiǎng jié àn | robbery; holdup |
| 劫机 (劫機) | jié jī | hijacking; air piracy |
| 劫难 (劫難) | jié nàn | calamity |
| 万劫不复 (萬劫不復) | wàn jié bù fù | consigned to eternal damnation; with no hope of reprieve |
| 趁火打劫 | chèn huǒ dǎ jié | (lit.) to loot a burning house (idiom); (fig.) to take advantage of sb's misfortune |
English words written with 劫
劫 in the Chinese classics
Occurrences: Zhuangzi 2
Data: Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Retrieved 2026-10-22.