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打翻 (dǎ fān): meaning and stroke order

打翻 (dǎ fān) means to overturn, to overthrow, to strike down (an enemy).

打翻

Simplified
打翻
Traditional
打翻 (same form)
Pinyin
dǎ fān

Stroke order of 打翻

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

翻

  • fān to turn over; to flip over
  • fān variant of 翻[fan1]
  • 18 strokes
  • Traditional form: 飜

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 打翻

  1. dǎ fān
    • to overturn
    • to overthrow
    • to strike down (an enemy)

Radicals of the characters

打
Radical 手 (Kangxi radical 64) · 5 strokes · 扌 on the left, 丁 on the right
翻
Radical 羽 (Kangxi radical 124) · 18 strokes · 番 on the left, 羽 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.

打翻 in our stories

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  • 女娃从小就向往大海。有一天，她一个人划着小船去东海玩，没想到突然起了大风，小船被巨浪打翻，她再也没有回来。

    Nǚwá cóngxiǎo jiù xiàngwǎng dàhǎi yǒu yì tiān tā yí gè rén huá zhe xiǎochuán qù Dōng Hǎi wán méi xiǎngdào tūrán qǐ le dà fēng xiǎochuán bèi jùlàng dǎfān tā zài yě méiyǒu huílai

    From childhood Nüwa longed for the sea. One day she rowed alone out onto the Eastern Sea to play; unexpectedly a gale blew up, a huge wave overturned the boat, and she never came back.

    From the story Jingwei fills the sea HSK 7–9 · Level 8

Stories using 打翻

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).