Chinese Word of the Day

打哈欠
dǎ hā qiàn

yawn

Definitions

Chinese > English
打哈欠	dǎ hāqian
1. v. to yawn
English > Chinese
yawn
1. 打哈欠
2. 大裂口
3. 打著哈欠说
4. 哈欠
5. 张开大口
6. 裂缝
7. 呵欠
8. 哈
9. 欠
Components
打	dǎ
1. to hit; to strike; to slap; to beat
別打人。 - Don't hit people.
打蚊子 - to swat mosquitoes
把飛機打下來 - to shoot down an airplane
)” means “to beat (擊)”. Belongs to hand radical (手) and is pronounced like 丁 (teŋ)., ref=Shuowen*
2. to play the drums
3. 打鼓 - to play the drums
4. to fight; to attack
打架 - to come to blows; to fight
二戰德國為什麼要打蘇聯？ - In World War II, why did Germany attack the Soviet Union?
5. the act of beating up
他挨了一頓打。 - He was beaten up.
6. (Used as a dummy verb to make a verbal phrase from a noun, including but not limited to:)
7. to perform (a martial art)
8. 打太極拳 - to perform Tai Chi
9. to get; to fetch
10. 打水 - to get water
11. to buy (meat, soy sauce, oil, etc. at a grocery store)
12. 打.醬油 - to buy soy sauce
13. to guess; (the riddle) is about
14. 打一人物 - to guess a person
15. to make (a gesture, signal, etc.)
16. 打招呼 - to say hello
17. 打呵欠 - to yawn
18. 打右燈 - to put on the right turn signal (when driving)
19. to fabricate; to build
20. 打刀 - to make a knife
21. 打牆 - to build a wall
22. 打毛衣 - to knit a sweater
23. to stir
24. 打算盤 - to calculate with an abacus
25. 打方向盤 - to turn a steering wheel
26. 打蛋daan6-2 - to whip an egg
27. to break
28. 我把暖壺打了。 - I broke the vacuum flask.
29. 碗打了 - the bowl was broken by someone/something
30. 雞飛蛋打 - having lost everything
31. to open
32. 打帳子 - to open (or set up) the bed curtains
33. 打開 - to open
34. to dig
35. 打井 - to dig a well
36. to send or call
37. 打電報 - to send a telegraph
38. 打.電話 - to call on the telephone
39. 打手機 - to call on the cellphone
40. 到咗機場就打畀我。 - Call me when you arrive at the airport.
41. 對不bu起，打錯了。 - Sorry, I got the wrong number.
42. to pump (a tire, etc.); to inject
43. 打氣 - to pump air into something
44. 打疫苗 - to give a vaccine
45. 打顯影劑 - to inject IV contrast -
46. (involving gunpowder) to fire off; to set off; to attack
47. 打槍 - to fire a gun (mainly used in China)
48. 打炮仗zhang - to set off a firecracker
49. (vulgar) to perform sexual activity
50. 打炮 - to have sex
51. 打手槍 - to masturbate
52. to gather
53. 打成一片 - to get along well with everyone else
54. to attach
55. 打.蠟 - to wax
56. 打補丁 - to patch up
57. to lift
58. 打燈籠 - to carry a lighted lantern
59. to bite (said of insects that eat books, clothes)
60. to write
61. 打證明 - to write out a testimonial
62. 打介紹信 - to write a recommendation letter
63. to paint; to stamp
64. 打格子 - to draw a grid
65. 打郵戳 - to postmark
66. (computer) to type
67. 「啲\od的i1」字點打daa2？ - How do you type "(m, zh, 啲, o的"?)
68. to display (text, an image, etc.)
69. 屏幕上打出兩行háng 字。 - Two lines of text display on the screen.
70. to use (a computer, usually for entertainment)
71. 打電腦 - to use a computer
72. to play (a video game or console)
73. 打電動 - to play video game
74. to play (a sport involving balls with hand)
75. 打壁球 - to play squash
76. 打一場輸一場 - play a round and lose a round
77. 打波 - to play a ball game
78. to play (mahjong or poker, etc.)
79. 打麻雀zoek3-2 - to play mahjong
80. 打撲pú克kèr - to play poker, M-UIB
81. 打牌 - to play cards or mahjong
82. to tie (attention, zh, only refers to tying specific types of things?)
83. 打領結 - to tie a bowtie
84. 打煲呔 - to tie a bowtie
85. to reduce
86. 打.價 - to bargain
87. to remove
88. 打.蟲 - to kill insects
89. to stop
90. 打住 - to stop
91. to mark, to attach
92. 打個標籤 - to tag
93. (Cantonese) to correspond to; to be associated with
哈	hā
1. (of fish) many; plenteous
2. (of a fish's mouth) opening; moving
3. (onomatopoeia) (sound of laughter:) ha
4. (exclamation of triumph, etc.:) ha!
5. (dialectal) (Sentence-final particle softening the request.)
6. to breathe out
7. (Taiwan Min Nan) to drink (hot tea)
8. Short for 哈薩克斯坦, gloss=Kazakhstan
9. Short for 哈爾濱, gloss=Harbin
10. (chiefly Mandarin Jin colloquial) to bend; to stoop
11. (Beijing) to scold; to reprimand
12. Only used in 哈巴 (Pekingese; pug, tr=hǎba)
13. (mainly among Hui people)
14. (zh-used2, c)
15. Only used in 哈喇 (gloss=a kind of top-quality woollen goods produced in Russia)
16. (Southwestern Mandarin, Xiang) silly; stupid
17. (Southwestern Mandarin) to tickle
18. Only used in 哈士蟆
19. Only used in 哈巴 (gloss=knee bending when walking)
20. Alternative form of 喝 (to drink)
21. Alternative form of 呷
22. Used in place names
23. Variant of 歃
24. Variant of ?
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歃	shà
1. (literary) to drink (blood); to suck (blood); to smear (blood) on the mouth
歃血 - to smear the mouth with the blood of a sacrifice -
2. (Xiamen, &, Quanzhou Hokkien) to eat (snacks, etc. in an undignified manner)
欠	qiàn
1. to yawn
2. to lack; to be deficient
3. to owe
4. to ask for; to beg for
欠揍 - asking for a beating
5. (Wuhan) to miss somebody
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Pronunciation

dǎ hā qiàn

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