打针
Meaning
- to give or get an injection
Example sentence
孩子生病了，要去打针。
The child is sick and needs to get an injection.
Characters in 打针
- 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")
- 针 zhēn a needle, a pin; a stitch, an injection
打 to strike plus 针, a needle. 针 gives 针对 and 方针; a verb-object pair — 打了一针.