打 (dǎ): meaning and stroke order
打 (dǎ) means a semantically light.
打
- Simplified
- 打
- Traditional
- 打 (same form)
- Pinyin
- dǎ · dá
Audio preview uses your device’s Chinese voice. It is not a recording.
Stroke order of 打
打
- dá (loanword) dozen; Taiwan pr. [da3]
- dǎ a semantically light, transitive verb that is combined with various grammatical objects to form compound verbs and verb-object phrases with a diverse range of meanings (e.g. 打傘|打伞[da3 san3] "to hold an umbrella", 打電話|打电话[da3 dian4 hua4] "to make a phone call", 打針|打针[da3 zhen1] "to get an injection", 打手套[da3 shou3 tao4] "to knit gloves", 打氣|打气[da3 qi4] "to inflate"); to hit; to strike
- 5 strokes
Stroke by stroke
Practise the whole word
Write each character in its box. A hint appears after a few wrong strokes.
Meaning of 打
-
dǎ
- a semantically light, transitive verb that is combined with various grammatical objects to form compound verbs and verb-object phrases with a diverse range of meanings (e.g. 打傘|打伞[da3 san3] "to hold an umbrella", 打電話|打电话[da3 dian4 hua4] "to make a phone call", 打針|打针[da3 zhen1] "to get an injection", 打手套[da3 shou3 tao4] "to knit gloves", 打氣|打气[da3 qi4] "to inflate")
- to hit; to strike
- to fight
- (coll.) from; since (as in 打那以後|打那以后[da3 na4 yi3 hou4] "since then")
-
dá
- (loanword) dozen
- Taiwan pr. [da3]
Radical and structure
- 打
- Radical 手 (Kangxi radical 64) · 5 strokes · 扌 on the left, 丁 on the right
Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan database. Structure: the shapes a character is written with (BabelStone IDS), not necessarily parts that carry meaning or sound.
Words with 打
- 打动 dǎ dòng to move (to pity); arousing (sympathy)
- 打开 dǎ kāi to open; to show (a ticket)
- 打工 dǎ gōng to work a temporary or casual job; (of students) to have a job outside of class time, or during vacation
- 打转 dǎ zhuàn to spin; to rotate
- 打雷 dǎ léi to rumble with thunder; clap of thunder
- 打算 dǎ suàn to plan; to intend
- 打翻 dǎ fān to overturn; to overthrow
- 打败 dǎ bài to defeat; to overpower
- 打磨 dǎ mó to polish; to burnish; to shine
- 打扫 dǎ sǎo to clean; to sweep
- 打猎 dǎ liè to go hunting
- 打仗 dǎ zhàng to fight a battle; to go to war
打 in our stories
Preview version — Chinese review in progress.
-
他给陈静打电话：“你在哪儿？”
tā gěi Chén Jìng dǎ diànhuà nǐ zài nǎr
He phoned Chen Jing: "Where are you?"
From the story At the airport HSK 2
-
他用妻子的手机给自己打电话。
tā yòng qīzi de shǒujī gěi zìjǐ dǎ diànhuà
He uses his wife's phone to call his own number.
From the story Where's my phone? HSK 2
-
房东有点儿不好意思：“楼上的小伙子每天晚上打鼓，声音很大。”
fángdōng yǒudiǎnr bù hǎoyìsi lóushàng de xiǎohuǒzi měitiān wǎnshang dǎ gǔ shēngyīn hěn dà
The landlord looks a little embarrassed: "The young man upstairs plays the drums every evening. It's very loud."
From the story The cheap room HSK 3
Stories using 打
- At the airport HSK 2
- Where's my phone? HSK 2
- The cheap room HSK 3
- The qilin HSK 4
- The identical suitcase HSK 4
- English on the basketball court HSK 5
Dictionary data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Stroke data: Hanzi Writer data, derived from Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License). Animation: Hanzi Writer (MIT licence). Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan (Unicode License v3).