打扫
Written dǎ sǎo, said dá sǎo — a third tone before another third tone is said as a second.
Meaning
- to clean
- to sweep
Example sentence
打扫房间。
Clean the room.
Characters in 打扫
- 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. 打伞 "to hold an umbrella", 打电话 "to make a phone call", 打针 "to get an injection", 打手套 "to knit gloves", 打气 "to inflate")
- 扫 sǎo to sweep (with a brush or broom)
打 plus 扫 to sweep. 打 adds little beyond making the word disyllabic, which Chinese prefers.