HSK 3.0 Level 2 · Everyday Verbs

踢 tī “to kick” in Chinese

Same in Traditional

What 踢 means

  1. to kick
  2. to play (e.g. football)

How to say 踢

  • Pitch chart of the first tone: stays high and level, 5 to 5 on the five-level scale踢tī1st tone, high and level

踢 in a sentence

  1. 我们昨天踢了足球。

    Wǒmen zuótiān tī le zúqiú.

    We played soccer yesterday.

    Sentence #464842 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

  2. 我们去踢足球吧！

    Wǒmen qù tīzúqiú ba!

    Let’s go and play soccer!

    Sentence #11231395 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

  3. 他踢了那颗球。

    Tā tī le nà kē qiú.

    He kicked the ball.

    Sentence #1239336 from Tatoeba · converted to simplified characters · translation adapted

How 踢 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 踢 (tī) with each of its parts in a different colour
踢tīto kick
  • 足foot · zúMeaning part
  • 易to change · yìSound part

足 hints at the meaning (foot); 易 (yì) hints at the sound. Compare it with tī.

How to write 踢

踢 15 strokes

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

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

Words related to 踢

Words with 踢

踢足球tīzúqiú · to play football (football)

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FAQs

踢 (tī) means “to kick” or “to play (e.g. football)”. It is an HSK 3.0 Level 2 word.
Say it tī: tī with a 1st tone. Press Listen at the top of this page to hear it, or Slowly to hear each tone clearly.
Yes. 踢 is written the same way in Simplified and Traditional characters.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type ti with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 踢 from the suggestions. Typing ti into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
踢 is an HSK 3.0 Level 2 word in the official 2021 syllabus, and it is on our HSK 3.0 Band 2 word list. It is not on the older 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.