HSK 6 · Society

抢劫 qiǎngjié “to rob” in Chinese

Traditional 搶劫

What 抢劫 means

  1. to rob
  2. robbery
  3. looting

How to say 抢劫

  • Pitch chart of the third tone: dips low then rises, 2 to 1 to 4 on the five-level scale抢qiǎng3rd tone, dipping
  • Pitch chart of the second tone: rises from mid to high, 3 to 5 on the five-level scale劫jié2nd tone, rising

抢劫 in a sentence

  1. 我被抢劫了。

    Wǒ bèi qiǎngjié le.

    I was robbed.

    Sentence #9960188 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

  2. 你被抢劫过吗？

    Nǐ bèi qiǎngjié guo ma?

    Have you ever been robbed?

    Sentence #5067441 from Tatoeba

  3. 这家银行一周前被抢劫。

    Zhè jiā yínháng yì zhōu qián bèi qiǎngjié.

    This bank was robbed a week ago.

    Sentence #779073 from Tatoeba · converted to simplified characters · translation adapted

How 抢劫 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 抢 (qiǎng) with each of its parts in a different colour
抢qiǎngto fight over
  • 扌hand form of 手 · shǒuMeaning part
  • 仓granary · cāngSound part

扌 hints at the meaning (hand); 仓 (cāng) hints at the sound. Compare it with qiǎng.

The character 劫 (jié) with each of its parts in a different colour
劫jiéto rob
  • 去to go away · qùSound part
  • 力strength · lìMeaning part

力 hints at the meaning (strength); 去 (qù) hints at the sound. Compare it with jié.

How to write 抢劫

抢 7 strokes · 劫 7 strokes

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

Words related to 抢劫

Words with 抢

抢qiǎng · to snatch抢救qiǎngjiù · to rescue

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FAQs

抢劫 (qiǎngjié) means “to rob” or “robbery”. It is an HSK 6 word.
Say it qiǎngjié: qiǎng with a 3rd tone, then jié with a 2nd 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, 抢劫 is written 搶劫. The pronunciation is the same.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type qiangjie with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 抢劫 from the suggestions. Typing qiangjie into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
抢劫 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.