| | a semantically light, transitive verb that is combined with various grammatical objects to form compound verbs and verb-object phrases with a diverse range of meanings (e.g. 打傘|打伞 "to hold an umbrella", 打電話|打电话 "to make a phone call", 打針|打针 "to get an injection", 打手套 "to knit gloves", 打氣|打气 "to inflate") / to hit; to strike / to fight / (coll.) from; since (as in 打那以後|打那以后 "since then") | HSK 1 |
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| | to make a telephone call | HSK 1 |
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| | to play ball / to play with a ball | HSK 1 |
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| | to take a taxi (in town) / to hitch a lift | HSK 1 |
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| | to open / to show (a ticket) / to turn on / to switch on | HSK 1 |
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| | to affix a seal / to stamp / to print out (with a printer) | HSK 2 |
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| | to plan / to intend / to calculate / plan / intention / calculation / CL: 個|个 | HSK 2 |
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| | to work a temporary or casual job / (of students) to have a job outside of class time, or during vacation | HSK 2 |
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| | to break; to smash | HSK 3 |
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| | to ask about / to make some inquiries / to ask around | HSK 3 |
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| | to clean / to sweep | HSK 4 |
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| | (loanword) dozen / Taiwan pr. [da3] | HSK 4 |
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| | to rumble with thunder / clap of thunder | HSK 4 |
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| | to defeat / to overpower / to beat / to be defeated | HSK 4 |
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| | to give or get an injection | HSK 4 |
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| | to give a discount | HSK 4 |
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| | to disturb / to bother / to trouble | HSK 5 |
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| | to hit / to strike / to attack / to crack down on sth / blow / (psychological) shock / percussion (music) | HSK 5 |
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| | to fight / to scuffle / to come to blows / CL: 場|场 | HSK 5 |
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| | to wrap; to pack / to put leftovers in a doggy bag for take-out / (computing) to package (i.e. create an archive file) | HSK 5 |
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| | to decorate / to dress / to make up / to adorn / manner of dressing / style of dress | HSK 5 |
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| | printer | HSK 6 |
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| | to call / to dial | HSK 6 |
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| | to create / to build / to develop / to forge (of metal) | HSK 6 |
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| | to interrupt / to break off / to break (a bone) | HSK 6 |
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| | to play mahjong or cards | HSK 6 |
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| | to move (to pity) / arousing (sympathy) / touching | HSK 6 |
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| | to file a lawsuit / to sue / to dispute | HSK 6 |
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| | to take a beating / to get thrashed / to come under attack | HSK 6 |
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| | to dispatch sb to do sth / to make sb leave / to pass (the time) / (old) to make arrangements / (old) to bestow (alms etc) | HSK 6 |
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| | to open access / to establish contact / to remove a block / to put through (a phone connection) | HSK 7-9 |
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| | to polish; to burnish; to shine | HSK 7-9 |
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| | to beat up / to come to blows / battery (law) | HSK 7-9 |
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| | to greet sb by word or action / to give prior notice | HSK 7-9 |
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| | to size sb up / to look sb up and down / to take the measure of / to suppose / to reckon | HSK 7-9 |
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| | to come into contact with / to have dealings | HSK 7-9 |
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| | to go hunting | HSK 7-9 |
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| | to disturb; to trouble; to bother | HSK 7-9 |
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| | dispirited and downcast (idiom); listless / in low spirits / washed out | HSK 7-9 |
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| | to fight a battle / to go to war | HSK 7-9 |
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| | meticulous planning and careful accounting (idiom) | HSK 7-9 |
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| | interruption / to interrupt (esp. talk) / to change the subject | HSK 7-9 |
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| | to salvage / to dredge / to fish out (person or object from the sea) | HSK 7-9 |
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| | to overthrow / to knock down / Down with ... ! | HSK 7-9 |
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| | the Great Sparrow Campaign or the Four Pests Campaign, one of the actions during the Great Leap Forward 大躍進|大跃进 aiming to eliminate four pests: rats, flies, mosquitoes, and sparrows | |
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| | to go in search of food (of animals) / to take medicine for indigestion or gastro-intestinal upsets | |
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| | to kick and beat (idiom) | |
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| | to spin / to rotate / to revolve | |
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| | half a dozen | |
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| | to fear / to feel terrified | |
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| | (idiom) to hit the jackpot with a single shot; to achieve success at one's first try | |
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| | to work hard towards a turnaround / to fight to reverse sth | |
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| | to doze off | |
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| | to masturbate (slang) | |
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| | using a wicker basket to draw water (idiom); wasted effort | |
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| | sorry to interrupt you, but ... / sorry to have bothered you / sorry, I have to go / (slang) (coined c. 2017) used facetiously to terminate a conversation (esp. online) when the other person is being insufferable | |
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| | to beat a prisoner (to obtain confessions) / to give sb the third degree / to torture | |
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| | to buy wholesale | |
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| | to do odd jobs / to do unskilled work | |
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| | to seize power / to conquer the world / to establish and expand a business / to carve out a career for oneself | |
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| | to collect money from sb / to give money to sb | |
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| | (slang) to cheer sb on / to show one's support / ("call" is pronounced approximately like English "call") | |
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| | (music) lead single; the main song promoted from an album | |
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| | to have a snowball fight | |
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| | printout / hard copy | |
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| | to grade / to give a mark | |
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| | Takow, Takao or Takau, old name for Kaohsiung 高雄 in the southwest of Taiwan | |
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| | to start talking | |
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| | to wrestle / to grapple / to scuffle | |
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| | to beat (sb or sth) into (a certain condition) / to denounce (sb) as (sth contemptible) | |
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| | to beat time; to mark rhythm on drum or clapper boards | |
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| | print server | |
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| | to tell sb's fortune using divinatory trigrams | |
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| | (loanword) soda / (loanword) carbonated drink; soft drink | |
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| | to yawn | |
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| | batting average (baseball etc) | |
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| | to give a discount / to be of less value than anticipated | |
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| | lit. to strike with a muckrake (idiom), cf Pigsy 豬八戒|猪八戒 in Journey to the West 西遊記|西游记; fig. to counterattack / to make bogus accusations (against one's victim) | |
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| | lit. to give each one a flogging of fifty strokes (idiom) / fig. to punish the guilty and the innocent alike / to put the blame on both parties | |
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| | (photography, filmmaking) to set up the lighting; to illuminate a scene / to polish; to buff; to give luster to (a surface, esp. stone, wood, metal etc) | |
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| | unimportant / not serious / it doesn't matter / never mind | |
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| | to skid / to slip / to slide | |
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| | (of an employee) to clock on (or off); to punch in (or out) / (on social media) to check in to a location | |
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| | to lay (a foundation) / to conquer (a city etc) / to shoot down (a bird etc) | |
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| | to inflate; to pump up / (fig.) to encourage; to boost morale | |
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| | to open fire with artillery / to set off firecrackers / to make one's stage debut / (slang) to have sex / to masturbate | |
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| | earlier / long ago / as soon as possible | |
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| | to forge ironware | |
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| | to bow respectfully with clasped hands / to beg humbly | |
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| | to beat / to lash | |
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| | to whip / to lash / to flog / to thrash | |
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| | (coll.) to take a taxi / to go by taxi | |
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| | holy basil (Ocimum tenuiflorum) (loanword from Thai "kaphrao") (used as an attributive in the names of Thai-style "phat kaphrao" dishes to indicate that the main ingredient is stir-fried with basil, as in 打拋豬|打抛猪, stir-fried pork with basil) | |
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| | to doze off | |
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| | to lay a foundation (also fig.) / to make a first sketch / to eat sth before drinking / to apply an undercoat | |
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