Taiwan Lounge

打

dǎ

Novice Level 1 ★ Core word
VerbMeasure wordPreposition

Definition

  1. 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 "to hold an umbrella", 打電話 "to make a phone call", 打針 "to get an injection", 打手套 "to knit gloves", 打氣 "to inflate")
  2. to hit; to strike
  3. to fight
  4. (coll.) from; since (as in 打那以後 "since then")

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Example

我不會打籃球。

I can't play basketball.

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Vocabulary & levels: TBCL / NAER. Parts of speech: TOCFL 8000-word list (SC-TOP). Definitions: CC-CEDICT & CFDICT (CC BY-SA). Stroke data: Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License).