打
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to hit; to strike; to fight; (in many expressions) a semantically light transitive verb used with various objects to form expressions with a wide 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"; (coll.) from; since
- HSK 3.0
- Level 1
- Old HSK
- Level 1
- Strokes
- 5
- Radical
- 手 +2
- Structure
- Left–right 左右
- Traditional
- 打
- Common rank
- #76
- Unicode
- U+6253
Sound it out + = · + =
Formation & memory
Break the character into parts you already know.
How to remember it
strike · Heisig RSH #593
fingers + spike
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Words with 打
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 打开 | to open; to show (a ticket); to turn on; to switch on | |
| 打车 | to take a taxi (in town); to hitch a lift | |
| 打球 | to play ball; to play with a ball | |
| 打电话 | to make a telephone call | |
| 一打 | dozen | |
| 打水 | to draw water; to splash water | |
| 打中 | to hit (a target) | |
| 大打出手 | to come to blows; to start a fight; (derived from the term for a type of theatrical fight … | |
| 自打 | (coll.) since | |
| 打小 | (dialect) from childhood; from a young age | |
| 打电动 | (Tw) to play video games | |
| 不打不成器 | spare the rod and spoil the child (idiom) | |
| 打天下 | to seize power; to conquer the world; to establish and expand a business; to carve out a c… | |
| 打工人 | worker | |
| 打动 | to move (to pity); arousing (sympathy); touching | |
| 打不通 | cannot get through (on phone) | |
| 安打 | base hit (baseball) | |
| 打下手 | to act in a supporting role; fig. to play second fiddle | |
| 打手 | hired thug | |
| 打气 | to inflate; to pump up; (fig.) to encourage; to boost morale |
Sound family
Characters sharing the sound component 丁 — compare how they read.
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 丁 sound part | male adult; robust, vigorous; 4th heavenly stem | |
| 宁 | calm, peaceful; healthy; rather; to prefer | |
| 灯 | lamp, lantern, light | |
| 顶 | top, summit, peak; to carry on the head | |
| 厅 | hall, central room | |
| 订 | to make an order; to draw up an agreement | |
| 汀 | bank, sandbar; beach, shore | |
| 叮 | to persistently exhort or urge; sting (as of an insect) | |
| 盯 | to rivet one's gaze upon; to keep eyes on | |
| 町 | a raised path between fields | |
| 仃 | lonely, solitary | |
| 酊 | drunk, intoxicated | |
| 疔 | boil, carbuncle, ulcer | |
| 玎 | jingling, tinkling | |
| 耵 | earwax |