打听
Meaning
- to ask about
- to make some inquiries
- to ask around
Example sentence
我打听他是谁。
I asked who he was.
Characters in 打听
- 打 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")
- 听 tīng to listen to; to hear
Learned around the same time
- 村 cūn village
- 存 cún to exist
- 存在 cún zài to exist
- 错误 cuò wù mistaken; false; wrong
- 达到 dá dào to reach; to achieve; to attain
- 打破 dǎ pò to break; to smash
- 大概 dà gài roughly
- 大使馆 dà shǐ guǎn embassy
- 大约 dà yuē approximately
- 大夫 dài fu doctor; physician
- 代 dài to be a substitute for; to act on behalf of; to replace; to substitute
- 代表 dài biǎo representative