打
Meaning
- 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")
- to hit; to strike
- to fight
Example sentence
我打游戏。
I play video games.
The character 打
打 is 扌, the hand radical, with 丁 for the sound. It hits in 打人, but mostly it is the all-purpose verb for what hands do: 打电话, 打车, 打球, 打开, 打工, 打算.
Words containing 打
- 打车 dǎ chē to take a taxi (in town)
- 打电话 dǎ diàn huà to make a telephone call
- 打开 dǎ kāi to open
- 打球 dǎ qiú to play ball
- 打工 dǎ gōng to work a temporary or casual job
- 打算 dǎ suàn to plan
- 打印 dǎ yìn to affix a seal
- 打破 dǎ pò to break; to smash
- 打听 dǎ ting to ask about
- 打败 dǎ bài to defeat
- 打雷 dǎ léi to rumble with thunder
- 打扫 dǎ sǎo to clean
- 打折 dǎ zhé to give a discount
- 打针 dǎ zhēn to give or get an injection