打

Translingual

Stroke order

Etymology

Phono-semantic compound (形聲): semantic 扌 + phonetic 丁

This word was pronounced *teŋ in Old Chinese, as would be expected from a 丁 phonetic. (The word was previously written with 丁 itself before the addition of the 扌 component.) By the early Ming period, the character had been borrowed for another word with the same meaning but a different pronunciation (Middle Chinese ta). There appears to be no etymological relationship between the two words. In Chinese, the new reading became standard; however, derivations of the older pronunciation are still used in Japanese (ちょう chō, てい tei) and Vietnamese (đánh).

Han character

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

1. strike, hit, beat
2. fight
3. attack
4. shoot (i.e. a firearm, as in 打枪)
5. fetch
6. to play

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

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Cantonese

Hanzi

打 (Jyutping daa1, daa2, Yale da1, da2)

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Japanese

Kanji

打

(grade 3 “Kyōiku” kanji)

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Readings

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

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Korean

Hanja

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

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Mandarin

Pronunciation

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Hanzi

打 (Pinyin dǎ (da3), dá (da2), Wade-Giles ta³, ta²)

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Compounds

• 半打
• 吹打 ("wind and percussion music")
• 打擊／打击
• 打氣／打气 (dǎ qì, "to inflate; to pump up")
• 打電話／打电话 (dǎ diànhuà, "to make a phone call")
• 打針／打针 (dǎ zhēn, "to inject")
• 拳打 (quándǎ)

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Middle Chinese

Han character

打 (děng)

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Vietnamese

Han character

打 (đả, đánh, dừng, đử)

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