Translingual

Stroke order

Han character

打 (radical 64 手+2, 5 strokes, cangjie input 手一弓 (QMN), four-corner 5102₀, composition ⿰扌丁)

References

• KangXi: page 417, character 12
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 11781
• Dae Jaweon: page 763, character 13
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 3, page 1825, character 5
• Unihan data for U+6253

Chinese

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 打
Small seal script

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *rteŋʔ, *teːŋʔ) : semantic 扌 ‎(“hand”) + phonetic 丁 ‎(OC *rteːŋ, *teːŋ).

Etymology 1

This word was pronounced *teŋ in Old Chinese, as would be expected from a 丁 (dīng) phonetic. By the early Ming period, the character had been borrowed for another word with the same meaning but a different pronunciation, without the nasal ending. This may be related to the previous reading, as a dialectal variant. In Mandarin and some other dialects, the new reading became standard; however, derivations of the older pronunciation are still used in some dialects (Wu, Min Nan), Japanese (ちょう ‎(chō), てい ‎(tei)) and Vietnamese (đánh).

Also compare Proto-Mon-Khmer *dah ~ daʔ ‎(“to hit, to meet”), whence Mon ဒး ‎(tɛ̀h, “to hit (a mark), meet with, reach [goal], be correct, apposite, to fit”) and Khmer ទះ ‎(teăh, “to slap, to strike”).

Pronunciation

Definitions

打

1. to hit, to strike, to slap

   別打人。 / 别打人。  ―  Bié dǎ rén.  ―  Don't hit people.

2. to beat up
3. the act of beating up

   他挨了一頓打。 / 他挨了一顿打。  ―  Tā ái le yī dùn dǎ.  ―  He was beaten up.

4. to perform (a martial art)

   打太極拳 / 打太极拳  ―  dǎ tàijíquán  ―  to perform Tai Chi

5. to get

   打水  ―  dǎ shuǐ  ―  to get water

6. to guess; (the riddle) is about

   打一人物  ―  dǎ yī rénwù  ―  to guess a person

7. to buy (meat, soy sauce, oil, etc. at a grocery store)

   打醬油 / 打酱油  ―  dǎ jiàngyóu  ―  to buy soy sauce

8. to make (a gesture, signal, etc.)
9. to send or call

   打電報 / 打电报  ―  dǎ diànbào  ―  to send a telegraph

   打電話 / 打电话  ―  dǎ diànhuà  ―  to call someone's telephone

   打手機 / 打手机  ―  dǎ shǒujī  ―  to call someone's cellphone

10. to pump (a tire, etc.)

    打氣 / 打气  ―  dǎ qì  ―  to pump air into something

11. (involving gunpowder) to fire off; to set off

    打槍 / 打枪  ―  dǎ qiāng  ―  to fire a gun (mainly used in China)

    打炮仗 [Cantonese]  ―  daa² paau³ zoeng² [Jyutping]  ―  to set off a firecracker

12. (computing) to type

    “o的”字點打？ / “o的”字点打？ [Cantonese]  ―  "di¹" zi⁶ dim²daa²? [Jyutping]  ―  How do you type "o的"?

13. to use (a computer)

    打電腦 / 打电脑  ―  dǎ diànnǎo  ―  to use a computer

14. to play (a video game or console)

    打電動 / 打电动  ―  dǎ diàndòng  ―  to play video game

15. to play (a sport involving balls with hand)

    打壁球  ―  dǎ bìqiú  ―  to play squash

    打一場輸一場 / 打一场输一场  ―  dǎ yī chǎng shū yī chǎng  ―  play a round and lose a round

    打波 [Cantonese]  ―  daa² bo¹ [Jyutping]  ―  to play a ball game

16. to play (mahjong)

    打麻雀 [Cantonese]  ―  daa² maa⁴ zoek^3-2 [Jyutping]  ―  to play mahjong

17. to play the drums

    打鼓  ―  dǎ gǔ  ―  to play the drums

18. (vulgar) sexual activity

    打砲  ―  dǎpào  ―  to have sex

    打手槍 / 打手枪  ―  dǎshǒuqiāng  ―  to ****

Synonyms

Etymology 2

From English dozen.

Pronunciation

Definitions

打

1. Classifier: dozen

Compounds

Japanese

Kanji

(grade 3 “Kyōiku” kanji)

Readings

• On: だ (da), ちょう (chō), てい (tei)
• Kun: うつ (utsu), うち (uchi), ぶつ (butsu), ダース (dāsu)

Noun

打 ‎(katakana ダース, romaji dāsu) (The kanji is ateji)

1. dozen

Korean

Hanja

打 • ‎(ta, jeong) (hangeul 타, 정, revised ta, jeong, McCune-Reischauer t'a, chŏng, Yale tha, ceng)

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Vietnamese

Han character

打 (đả, đánh, dừng, đử)

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