打球
Meaning
- to play ball
- to play with a ball
Example sentence
周末我喜欢和朋友打球。
On weekends I like to play ball with friends.
Characters in 打球
- 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")
- 球 qiú ball
打 to strike plus 球 ball. Used for ball games played with the hands; 踢 is the verb for football.