打尖

Chinese

Etymology 1

		beat; strike; break beat; strike; break; mix up; build; fight; fetch; make; tie up; issue; shoot; calculate; since; from; dozen	point (of needle); sharp; shrewd point (of needle); sharp; shrewd; pointed
simp. and trad. (打尖)		打	尖

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Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): dǎjiān

  (Zhuyin): ㄉㄚˇ ㄐㄧㄢ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): daa² zim¹

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: dǎjiān
    • Zhuyin: ㄉㄚˇ ㄐㄧㄢ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: dǎjian
    • Wade–Giles: ta³-chien¹
    • Yale: dǎ-jyān
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: daajian
    • Palladius: дацзянь (daczjanʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tä²¹⁴⁻²¹ t͡ɕi̯ɛn⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: daa² zim¹
    • Yale: dá jīm
    • Cantonese Pinyin: daa² dzim¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: da² jim¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /taː³⁵ t͡siːm⁵⁵/

Verb

打尖

1. to stop to rest or eat while travelling

Etymology 2

		beat; strike; break beat; strike; break; mix up; build; fight; fetch; make; tie up; issue; shoot; calculate; since; from; dozen	point (of needle); sharp; shrewd point (of needle); sharp; shrewd; pointed
simp. and trad. (打尖)		打	尖

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): dǎjiān

  (Zhuyin): ㄉㄚˇ ㄐㄧㄢ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): daa² zim¹

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: dǎjiān
    • Zhuyin: ㄉㄚˇ ㄐㄧㄢ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: dǎjian
    • Wade–Giles: ta³-chien¹
    • Yale: dǎ-jyān
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: daajian
    • Palladius: дацзянь (daczjanʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tä²¹⁴⁻²¹ t͡ɕi̯ɛn⁵⁵/
      
  • (Standard Chinese, erhua-ed)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: dǎjiānr
    • Zhuyin: ㄉㄚˇ ㄐㄧㄢㄦ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: dǎjianr
    • Wade–Giles: ta³-chien¹-ʼrh
    • Yale: dǎ-jyānr
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: daajial
    • Palladius: дацзяньр (daczjanʹr)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tä²¹⁴⁻²¹ t͡ɕi̯ɑɻ⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: daa² zim¹
    • Yale: dá jīm
    • Cantonese Pinyin: daa² dzim¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: da² jim¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /taː³⁵ t͡siːm⁵⁵/

Verb

打尖

1. (agriculture) to top; to remove the top of a plant (e.g. a cotton plant, a tomato plant)

Etymology 3

For pronunciation and definitions of 打尖 – see 打櫼 (“to cut in line; to jump the queue”). (This term is a variant form of 打櫼).