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Kanji Detail for 打 - "strike, hit, beat"

  • Meaning

    打 means "strike, hit, beat."

    1. Strike - To hit or beat.

    2. Hit - To deliver a blow; to knock.

    3. Action prefix - Indicates doing an action.

    4. Dozen - Twelve items as a unit.

  • Dictionary Citations

    The meaning above is based on the following sources:

    KANJIDIC2 A comprehensive Japanese-English kanji dictionary

    strike; hit; knock; pound; dozen

    Unihan Unicode Han Database for CJK characters

    strike, hit, beat; fight; attack

    CC-CEDICT A Chinese-English dictionary

    (loanword) dozen; Taiwan pr. [da3]

    Make Me a Hanzi Open-source Chinese character data

    to attack, to beat, to hit, to strike

    XSZD Xuéshēng Zìdiǎn (學生字典) - Student's Dictionary

    To beat. | Colloquial uses of 打 are many. Sometimes used as "toward," as in 打那裏走. Sometimes as "take," as in 打糧, 打魚. Sometimes as "do," as in 不打誑語. Also 打疊, 打扮, 打點, 打聽, 打盹, 打樣, 打稿. Many action words use it. Nengzhaizhai Manlu says 打 is from 手 and 丁, meaning handling matters with one's hand. | In English, twelve items are called a "dozen," abbreviated as 打.
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