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- 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
- to fight
- (coll.) from; since (as in 打那以後|打那以后[da3 na4 yi3 hou4] "since then")
- to lay a foundation (also fig.)
- to make a first sketch
- to eat sth before drinking
- to apply an undercoat
- to beat (sb or sth) into (a certain condition)
- to denounce (sb) as (sth contemptible)
Trad. 現打
- to make a fresh batch of sth (juice, pasta, spices etc); freshly made (or ground, squeezed, brewed etc)
- Kedah, state of northwest Malaysia, capital Alor Star 亞羅士打|亚罗士打[Ya4 luo2 shi4 da3]
Trad. 打拋
- holy basil (Ocimum tenuiflorum) (loanword from Thai "kaphrao") (used as an attributive in the names of Thai-style "phat kaphrao" dishes to indicate that the main ingredient is stir-fried with basil, as in 打拋豬|打抛猪[da3 pao1 zhu1], stir-fried pork with basil)
Trad. 打撈
- to salvage
- to dredge
- to fish out (person or object from the sea)
Trad. 打擊
- to hit
- to strike
- to attack
- to crack down on sth
- blow
- (psychological) shock
- percussion (music)
- principal; main; flagship (product); title (track)
- to specialize in; to take as one's priority; to primarily focus on
- to hang sb up and beat him
- (fig.) (slang) to own (one's opponent)
- to thoroughly dominate
- to open fire with artillery
- to set off firecrackers
- to make one's stage debut
- (slang) to have sex
- to masturbate
- to blow out
- to blow off
- (computer games) to zap
- (phone) to ring off the hook
- to be jammed
- to max out (credit card etc)
- Takow, Takao or Takau, old name for Kaohsiung 高雄[Gao1 xiong2] in the southwest of Taiwan
Trad. 打發
- to dispatch sb to do sth
- to make sb leave
- to pass (the time)
- (old) to make arrangements
- (old) to bestow (alms etc)
Trad. 開打
- (of a sports competition or match) to commence
- (of a war or battle) to break out
- to perform acrobatic or choreographed fighting (in Chinese opera)
- to brawl
- to come to blows
Trad. 打臉
- to put on theatrical makeup
- (neologism c. 2014) to debunk sb's claim; to put egg on sb's face
Trad. 打製
- to make (by hammering, chipping etc)
- to forge (silverware, metal implements etc)
Trad. 打諢
- to intersperse comic remarks (in a performance)
- (fig.) to quip
- to banter
- to open access
- to establish contact
- to remove a block
- to put through (a phone connection)
- to beat a prisoner (to obtain confessions)
- to give sb the third degree
- to torture
- (photography, filmmaking) to set up the lighting; to illuminate a scene
- to polish; to buff; to give luster to (a surface, esp. stone, wood, metal etc)
Trad. 打兌
- to arrange (colloquial)
- to transfer creditor's rights (in a debt case)
- to penetrate; to break into (a market, social group etc); to infiltrate (enemy ranks etc)
- to banish to; to relegate to
- to insert; to inject
- to crack (an egg) into (a bowl etc)
- to size sb up
- to look sb up and down
- to take the measure of
- to suppose
- to reckon
- to wrap; to pack
- to put leftovers in a doggy bag for take-out
- (computing) to package (i.e. create an archive file)
- genuflection, a form of salutation in Qing times performed by men, going down on the right knee and reaching down with the right hand
- (of an employee) to clock on (or off); to punch in (or out)
- (on social media) to check in to a location
- (of CDs, videos etc) surplus (or "cut-out") stock from Western countries, sometimes marked with a notch in the disc or its case, sold cheaply in China (beginning in the 1990s), as well as Eastern Europe etc
Trad. 打響
- to start shooting or firing
- to win an initial success
- to succeed (of a plan)
- to go in search of food (of animals)
- to take medicine for indigestion or gastro-intestinal upsets
- to slap sb's face
- to slap one's own face
- fig. to fail to live up to a boast
Trad. 打鬧
- to quarrel; to squabble
- to be rowdy; to play boisterously; to engage in horseplay
Trad. 打鳥
- to shoot a bird (with a gun, slingshot etc)
- to photograph birds
Trad. 打點
- to bribe
- to get (luggage) ready
- to put in order
- to organize things
- (baseball) RBI (run batted in)