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打雷 (dǎ léi): meaning and stroke order

打雷 (dǎ léi) means to rumble with thunder, clap of thunder.

打雷

Simplified
打雷
Traditional
打雷 (same form)
Pinyin
dǎ léi

Stroke order of 打雷

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

雷

  • Léi surname Lei
  • léi thunder; (bound form) (military) mine, as in 地雷[di4 lei2] land mine
  • 13 strokes

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 打雷

  1. dǎ léi
    • to rumble with thunder
    • clap of thunder

Radicals of the characters

打
Radical 手 (Kangxi radical 64) · 5 strokes · 扌 on the left, 丁 on the right
雷
Radical 雨 (Kangxi radical 173) · 13 strokes · 雨 on top, 田 below

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.

打雷 in our stories

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  • 袁守诚掐指一算：“明天辰时布云，巳时打雷，午时下雨，未时雨停，共三尺三寸零四十八点。”

    Yuán Shǒuchéng qiā zhǐ yí suàn míngtiān chénshí bù yún sìshí dǎléi wǔshí xiàyǔ wèishí yǔ tíng gòng sān chǐ sān cùn líng sìshíbā diǎn

    Yuan Shoucheng counted on his fingers: "Tomorrow clouds gather at the hour of the Dragon, thunder at the Snake, rain at the Horse, stopping at the Goat: three feet, three inches and forty-eight drops in all."

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

  • 他一遍又一遍地跟她讲自己的女儿：女儿小时候怕打雷，一打雷就钻进他的被子里，他就唱一首自己编的歌哄她睡觉。

    tā yí biàn yòu yí biàn de gēn tā jiǎng zìjǐ de nǚ'ér nǚ'ér xiǎoshíhou pà dǎléi yì dǎléi jiù zuān jìn tā de bèizi lǐ tā jiù chàng yì shǒu zìjǐ biān de gē hǒng tā shuìjiào

    Again and again he told her about his daughter: as a little girl she was afraid of thunder, and whenever it thundered she crawled under his quilt, and he would sing a song he had made up to lull her to sleep.

    From the story The song in the thunderstorm HSK 7–9 · Level 8

Stories using 打雷

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).