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打扮 (dǎ ban): meaning and stroke order

打扮 (dǎ ban) means to decorate, to dress, to make up, to adorn, manner of dressing, style of dress.

打扮

Simplified
打扮
Traditional
打扮 (same form)
Pinyin
dǎ ban

Stroke order of 打扮

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

扮

  • bàn to disguise oneself as; to dress up
  • 7 strokes

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 打扮

  1. dǎ ban
    • to decorate
    • to dress
    • to make up
    • to adorn
    • manner of dressing
    • style of dress

Radicals of the characters

打
Radical 手 (Kangxi radical 64) · 5 strokes · 扌 on the left, 丁 on the right
扮
Radical 手 (Kangxi radical 64) · 7 strokes · 扌 on the left, 分 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.

打扮 in our stories

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  • 可是那时候，女孩子是不能进学堂的。她想了一个办法：打扮成男的，去杭州求学。

    kěshì nà shíhou nǚháizi shì bù néng jìn xuétáng de tā xiǎng le yí gè bànfǎ dǎban chéng nán de qù Hángzhōu qiúxué

    But in those days girls could not attend school. She came up with a plan: to dress as a man and go to Hangzhou to study.

    From the story The Butterfly Lovers HSK 7–9 · Level 8

Stories using 打扮

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).