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打败 (dǎ bài): meaning and stroke order

打败 (dǎ bài) means to defeat, to overpower, to beat, to be defeated.

打败

Simplified
打败
Traditional
打敗
Pinyin
dǎ bài

Stroke order of 打败

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

败

  • bài to defeat; to damage
  • 8 strokes
  • Traditional form: 敗

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 打败

  1. dǎ bài Traditional 打敗
    • to defeat
    • to overpower
    • to beat
    • to be defeated

Radicals of the characters

打
Radical 手 (Kangxi radical 64) · 5 strokes · 扌 on the left, 丁 on the right
败
Radical 贝 (Kangxi radical 154) in its simplified form · 8 strokes · 贝 on the left, 攵 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.

打败 in our stories

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  • 沉香回到华山，打败了舅舅二郎神，然后举起神斧，用尽全身的力气向山劈下去。

    Chénxiāng huídào Huà Shān dǎbài le jiùjiu Èrláng Shén ránhòu jǔ qǐ shén fǔ yòngjìn quánshēn de lìqi xiàng shān pī xiàqu

    Chenxiang returned to Mount Hua, defeated his uncle Erlang Shen, then raised the axe and brought it down on the mountain with all his strength.

    From the story Splitting the mountain to save his mother HSK 5

  • 两千一百多年前，汉武帝想联合西边的大月氏，一起打败经常侵犯边境的匈奴。

    liǎngqiān yìbǎi duō nián qián Hàn Wǔdì xiǎng liánhé xībian de Dà Yuèzhī yìqǐ dǎbài jīngcháng qīnfàn biānjìng de Xiōngnú

    Over two thousand one hundred years ago, Emperor Wu of Han wanted to ally with the Yuezhi in the west to defeat the Xiongnu, who kept raiding the border.

    From the story Zhang Qian's mission to the West HSK 6

  • 后来，他踩着风火轮，拿着火尖枪，帮助周武王打败了商朝，成了人们心中勇敢的少年英雄。

    hòulái tā cǎi zhe fēnghuǒlún ná zhe huǒjiānqiāng bāngzhù Zhōu Wǔwáng dǎbài le Shāngcháo chéng le rénmen xīnzhōng yǒnggǎn de shàonián yīngxióng

    Later, riding his wind-and-fire wheels and wielding his fire-tipped spear, he helped King Wu of Zhou defeat the Shang and became a brave young hero in people's hearts.

    From the story Nezha stirs up the sea HSK 7–9 · Level 8

Stories using 打败

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).