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打

dǎ, dá

strike

Phonosemantic compound. 扌 represents the meaning and 丁 represents the sound.

Components
扌 meaning component

扌  Meaning component

shou, shǒu

  

hand

扌 is a component form of 手.

丁 sound component

丁  Sound component

dīng

  

cubes

Evolution

打 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
打 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

打  

dǎ

strike, hit, beat; fight; attack; to beat; to strike; to hit; to break; to type; to mix up; to build; to fight; to fetch; to make; to tie up; to issue; to shoot; to calculate; to play (a game); since; from

打  

dá

dozen (loanword)

Most common words with 打
Freq.
Word
Meaning

打

to beat

打电话

to make a telephone call

打算

to plan

打开

to open

打击

to hit

Component uses

Sound component in 1 character (0 verified)

咑

Statistics

HSK level 1

Appears in 99.3593% of movies

100th most common character in movies

223rd most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

5

Unicode

U+6253

Shuowen

《說文新附》：“打，擊也。从手，丁聲。”


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