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打赌 (dǎ dǔ): meaning and stroke order

打赌 (dǎ dǔ) means to bet, to make a bet, a wager.

打赌

Simplified
打赌
Traditional
打賭
Pinyin
dǎ dǔ

Stroke order of 打赌

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

赌

  • dǔ to bet; to gamble
  • 12 strokes
  • Traditional form: 賭

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 打赌

  1. dǎ dǔ Traditional 打賭
    • to bet
    • to make a bet
    • a wager

Radicals of the characters

打
Radical 手 (Kangxi radical 64) · 5 strokes · 扌 on the left, 丁 on the right
赌
Radical 贝 (Kangxi radical 154) in its simplified form · 12 strokes · 贝 on the left, 者 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.

打赌 in our stories

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  • 龙王心想：下雨是我管的，你怎么可能比我清楚？于是和他打赌，输的人要砸了招牌。

    Lóngwáng xīn xiǎng xiàyǔ shì wǒ guǎn de nǐ zěnme kěnéng bǐ wǒ qīngchu yúshì hé tā dǎdǔ shū de rén yào zá le zhāopai

    The Dragon King thought: rain is my business; how could you know better than me? So he made a bet with him: the loser would have his signboard smashed.

    From the story The Dragon King of the Jing River HSK 7–9 · Level 7

Stories using 打赌

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).