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打磨 (dǎ mó): meaning and stroke order

打磨 (dǎ mó) means to polish; to burnish; to shine.

打磨

Simplified
打磨
Traditional
打磨 (same form)
Pinyin
dǎ mó

Stroke order of 打磨

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

磨

  • mó to rub; to grind
  • mò grindstone; to grind
  • 16 strokes

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 打磨

  1. dǎ mó
    • to polish; to burnish; to shine

Radicals of the characters

打
Radical 手 (Kangxi radical 64) · 5 strokes · 扌 on the left, 丁 on the right
磨
Radical 石 (Kangxi radical 112) · 16 strokes · built from 麻 and 石

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.

打磨 in our stories

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  • 钟远坚持产品要慢慢打磨，苗立却认为，市场不等人，必须抢在对手前面上市。

    Zhōng Yuǎn jiānchí chǎnpǐn yào mànmàn dǎmó Miáo Lì què rènwéi shìchǎng bù děng rén bìxū qiǎng zài duìshǒu qiánmiàn shàngshì

    Zhong Yuan insisted the product needed careful polishing; Miao Li believed the market waits for no one and they had to go public before their rivals.

    From the story The day he rang the bell HSK 7–9 · Level 7

Stories using 打磨

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).