HSK 6 · Verbs

攻击 gōngjī “to attack” in Chinese

Traditional 攻擊

What 攻击 means

  1. to attack
  2. to accuse
  3. to charge
  4. an attack (terrorist or military)

How to say 攻击

  • Pitch chart of the first tone: stays high and level, 5 to 5 on the five-level scale攻gōng1st tone, high and level
  • Pitch chart of the first tone: stays high and level, 5 to 5 on the five-level scale击jī1st tone, high and level

攻击 in a sentence

  1. 一般来说，狼不会攻击人。

    Yìbān lái shuō, láng bú huì gōngjī rén.

    Generally speaking, wolves don’t attack people.

    Sentence #1351276 from Tatoeba · converted to simplified characters · translation adapted

  2. 我们被一大群蜜蜂攻击。

    Wǒmen bèi yí dà qún mìfēng gōngjī.

    We were attacked by a huge swarm of bees.

    Sentence #389516 from Tatoeba · converted to simplified characters · translation adapted

  3. 没有人明白为什么大象突然攻击了它的主人。

    Méiyǒu rén míngbai wèishénme dàxiàng tūrán gōngjī le tā de zhǔrén.

    Nobody understood why the elephant suddenly attacked its owner.

    Sentence #804997 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

How 攻击 is built

Each colour is one part of the character. Parts repeat across thousands of characters, so learning them makes new words easier. See all 214 in our radicals chart.

The character 攻 (gōng) with each of its parts in a different colour
攻gōngto attack
  • 工work · gōngSound part
  • 攵tap form of 攴 · pūMeaning part

攵 hints at the meaning (tap); 工 (gōng) hints at the sound. Compare it with gōng.

The character 击 (jī) drawn as one shape
击jīto hit

击 is a single shape of 5 strokes. Learn it whole, then watch its stroke order below.

How to write 攻击

攻 7 strokes · 击 5 strokes

Watch the order, then press Try writing it and draw each stroke in the grid. Each stroke is checked as you go.

攻击 (gōngjī) stroke order chart: each stroke of the characters in the order you write them
Stroke order chart for 攻击 (gōngjī). Red marks the next stroke, so you can copy it onto paper one step at a time.

Words related to 攻击

Words with 攻

攻克gōngkè · to capture进攻jìngōng · to attack

Words with 击

射击shèjī · to shoot打击dǎjī · to strike袭击xíjī · to attack冲击chōngjī · impact

More words: Common Verbs

更正gēngzhèng · to correct跟随gēnsuí · to follow跟踪gēnzōng · to track巩固gǒnggù · to consolidate攻克gōngkè · to capture贯彻guànchè · to implement关照guānzhào · to look after跪guì · to kneel

FAQs

攻击 (gōngjī) means “to attack” or “to accuse”. It is an HSK 6 word.
Say it gōngjī: gōng with a 1st tone, then jī with a 1st tone. Press Listen at the top of this page to hear it, or Slowly to hear each tone clearly.
In Traditional characters, used in Taiwan and Hong Kong, 攻击 is written 攻擊. The pronunciation is the same.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type gongji with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 攻击 from the suggestions. Typing gongji into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
攻击 is an HSK 6 word in the HSK 2.0 word lists.

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Sources: meaning and pinyin checked by a native Mandarin teacher against the official HSK lists. Extra meanings from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR). Character parts and stroke order from Make Me a Hanzi.