HSK 6 · Society

袭击 xíjī “to attack” in Chinese

Traditional 襲擊

What 袭击 means

  1. to attack
  2. to raid
  3. attack (esp. surprise attack)

How to say 袭击

  • Pitch chart of the second tone: rises from mid to high, 3 to 5 on the five-level scale袭xí2nd tone, rising
  • Pitch chart of the first tone: stays high and level, 5 to 5 on the five-level scale击jī1st tone, high and level

袭击 in a sentence

  1. 地震频繁地袭击日本。

    Dìzhèn pínfán de xíjī Rìběn.

    Earthquakes frequently hit Japan.

    Sentence #824630 from Tatoeba · converted to simplified characters · translation adapted

  2. 台风袭击了关东地区。

    Táifēng xíjī le Guāndōng dìqū.

    The typhoon hit the Kanto region.

    Sentence #1776532 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

  3. 我们被暴风雨袭击了。

    Wǒmen bèi bàofēngyǔ xíjī le.

    We were caught in a storm.

    Sentence #335879 from Tatoeba

How 袭击 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 袭 (xí) with each of its parts in a different colour
袭xíto raid; to attack
  • 龙dragon · lóngMeaning part
  • 衣clothes · yīSound part

龙 hints at the meaning (dragon); 衣 (yī) hints at the sound. Compare it with xí.

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 袭击

袭 11 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.

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

Words related to 袭击

Words with 击

射击shèjī · to shoot打击dǎjī · to strike攻击gōngjī · to attack冲击chōngjī · impact

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FAQs

袭击 (xíjī) means “to attack” or “to raid”. It is an HSK 6 word.
Say it xíjī: xí with a 2nd 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, 袭击 is written 襲擊. The pronunciation is the same.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type xiji with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 袭击 from the suggestions. Typing xiji into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
袭击 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.