打
dǎ
to hit, to play
Part of speech · verb
Pattern visualization
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Examples
- 别打弟弟!Don't hit your brother!
- 我们打篮球吧。Let's play basketball.
Collocations
打篮球打电话打开
Mnemonic
打 dǎ "hit, do, open, …" — extremely polysemous verb. 打篮球 "play basketball", 打电话 "make a call", 打开 "open", 打的 "take a taxi". Korean/Japanese 打 ta narrows to literal "hit/strike".
Quick check
Meaning of 打电话?