打
Meanings · daa1
- a dozen
Meanings · daa2
- 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
- to smash
- to compete with
- to go up against
- to seize
- to whisk
- to call someone
- to inject
- to fill with
- to load
- to knot
- to mark
- to hunt
- to fish
- to work
- to think up
- to concentrate
- added before certain noun to describe an action, such as to sneeze
Meanings · ding2
- to take the lead
About these definitions
Source definition segments, in their original order. Characters a definition cites are shown without their Mandarin pinyin; classifier lists that CC-Canto copied from CC-CEDICT are marked Mandarin. The community dictionary is not independently verified by zimai.
Reading & tones
Schematic citation-tone diagrams from the source numbers. These are not recordings or predictions of connected speech.
Tone difference from Unihan
- 打 is read daa1 here; Unihan’s citation reading is daa2. Same syllable, different tone across these source readings. CC-Canto also lists 打 daa1 as its own entry.
Computed by zimai: each syllable of the CC-Canto word reading is compared with Unihan 17.0.0 kCantonese for its character. The comparison does not say why a reading differs (a changed tone, 變音, a reading tied to one meaning, or a source variant).
Same syllable, six tones
Characters whose customary Unihan reading (kCantonese) is this syllable in each tone, chosen as in the tone atlas (2013 standard level, then the number of CC-CEDICT words they form), with CC-Canto 2017's meaning for that reading; a dash means no catalogue character has that reading. Checked syllables (-p, -t, -k) normally carry tones 1, 3 and 6. Character readings, not word readings; no frequency implied.
Written characters
Both source spellings are represented. Written membership is not an etymological or semantic claim.
Mandarin comparison · separate source entries
CC-CEDICT, the Mandarin–English dictionary, lists the same written form:
- 打 dá CC-CEDICT · Mandarin(loanword) dozen; Taiwan pr. dǎ
- 打 dǎ CC-CEDICT · Mandarinto hit; to strike; to fight; (in many expressions) a semantically light transitive verb used with various objects to form expressions with a wide range of meanings, e.g. 打傘 dǎ sǎn "to hold an umbrella", 打電話 dǎ diàn huà "to make a phone call", 打針 dǎ zhēn "to get an injection"; (coll.) from; since
A separate source entry, shown for comparison. The same characters can carry different senses in Mandarin and in Cantonese; zimai does not align these senses.
CC-Canto includes this pinyin reference: da3. It does not establish a Mandarin word with the same meaning.
Look up this spelling in the Mandarin dictionary ↗Compare dictionary sources Wiktionary · 46 senses · 3 Cantonese readings
Rime Cantonese 粵拼
daa1 · daa2 · ding2
Cantonese word readings for 打. This lexicon supplies readings, not definitions.
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Wiktionary English definitions · Chinese section
Independent source senses for this spelling, with usage labels retained. Not matched to the pronunciation above.
character · Etymology 1
- to hit; to strike; to slap; to beat
- to hit; to strike; to slap; to beat — to break by hitting or striking
- to hit; to strike; to slap; to beat — (music) to play (a percussion instrument)
- to fight; to attack
- the act of beating up
- Used as a dummy verb to make a verbal phrase from a noun, including but not limited to: — to get; to fetch
- Used as a dummy verb to make a verbal phrase from a noun, including but not limited to: — (metonymic) to buy unpackaged or simply packaged goods (meat, soy sauce, oil, etc. at a grocery store)
- Used as a dummy verb to make a verbal phrase from a noun, including but not limited to: — to buy (ticket)
- Used as a dummy verb to make a verbal phrase from a noun, including but not limited to: — to guess; (the riddle) is about
- Used as a dummy verb to make a verbal phrase from a noun, including but not limited to: — to make (a gesture, signal, etc.)
- Used as a dummy verb to make a verbal phrase from a noun, including but not limited to: — to speak (a signed language)
- Used as a dummy verb to make a verbal phrase from a noun, including but not limited to: — to fabricate; to build
- Used as a dummy verb to make a verbal phrase from a noun, including but not limited to: — to stir
- Used as a dummy verb to make a verbal phrase from a noun, including but not limited to: — to open
- Used as a dummy verb to make a verbal phrase from a noun, including but not limited to: — to lift
- Used as a dummy verb to make a verbal phrase from a noun, including but not limited to: — to dig
- Used as a dummy verb to make a verbal phrase from a noun, including but not limited to: — to send or call
- Used as a dummy verb to make a verbal phrase from a noun, including but not limited to: — to pump (a tire, etc.); to inject
- Used as a dummy verb to make a verbal phrase from a noun, including but not limited to: — (involving gunpowder) to fire off; to set off; to attack
- Used as a dummy verb to make a verbal phrase from a noun, including but not limited to: — (figuratively, vulgar) to perform sexual activity
- Used as a dummy verb to make a verbal phrase from a noun, including but not limited to: — to gather
- Used as a dummy verb to make a verbal phrase from a noun, including but not limited to: — to apply
- Used as a dummy verb to make a verbal phrase from a noun, including but not limited to: — to attach
- Used as a dummy verb to make a verbal phrase from a noun, including but not limited to: — to bite (said of insects that eat books, clothes)
- Used as a dummy verb to make a verbal phrase from a noun, including but not limited to: — to write
- Used as a dummy verb to make a verbal phrase from a noun, including but not limited to: — to paint; to stamp
- Used as a dummy verb to make a verbal phrase from a noun, including but not limited to: — (computing) to type
- Used as a dummy verb to make a verbal phrase from a noun, including but not limited to: — to display (text, an image, etc.)
- Used as a dummy verb to make a verbal phrase from a noun, including but not limited to: — to print (a file, a receipt, etc.)
- Used as a dummy verb to make a verbal phrase from a noun, including but not limited to: — to use (a computer, usually for entertainment)
- Used as a dummy verb to make a verbal phrase from a noun, including but not limited to: — to play (a video game or console)
- Used as a dummy verb to make a verbal phrase from a noun, including but not limited to: — to play (a sport involving balls with hand)
- Used as a dummy verb to make a verbal phrase from a noun, including but not limited to: — to play (mahjong, card games, etc.)
- Used as a dummy verb to make a verbal phrase from a noun, including but not limited to: — to perform (a martial art)
- Used as a dummy verb to make a verbal phrase from a noun, including but not limited to: — to tie
- Used as a dummy verb to make a verbal phrase from a noun, including but not limited to: — to reduce
- Used as a dummy verb to make a verbal phrase from a noun, including but not limited to: — to remove
- Used as a dummy verb to make a verbal phrase from a noun, including but not limited to: — to stop
- (Cantonese) to correspond to; to be associated with
- (Xiamen and Quanzhou Hokkien) to entrust something to someone to handle or dispose of
- to reach
- from; since
- (opera) A particle used between reduplicated syllables.
- a surname
character · Etymology 2
- dozen
character · Etymology 3
- only used in 蘇打／苏打 (sūdá)
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