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(dǎ) - to hit, to beat, to make a call in Mandarin

dǎ

Traditional: 打

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HSK 2
#177 of 5,000 Core 1000

Translation

to hit, to beat, to make a call

Word origin

打 is a phono-semantic compound: 扌 (the hand radical, a form of 手) gives the meaning, striking with the hand, and 丁 (dīng) supplies the sound. From 'to hit' it has spread to a wide range of verbal senses such as making a phone call.

Origin
phono-semantic compound
Root
扌 (shǒu, hand radical) + 丁 (dīng, phonetic)

Stroke order

Stroke order for 打

打

Examples

。

Don't hit me.

。

Call me.

。

He gave him a hit.

。

I want to call my mum.

。

Please fetch me a cup of water.

打 (dǎ) means to hit, to beat, to make a call. It is used as a verb in everyday Mandarin speech.

Appears in 4 words

Multi-character compounds in the corpus that contain 打.

打电话dǎ diàn huàto make a phone call, to call打算dǎ suànto plan, to intend, to mean to打开dǎ kāito open, to turn on, to switch on打扰dǎ rǎodisturb, bother, interrupt

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