Chinese Word of the Day
打呼噜dǎ hū lū
snoring
Definitions
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| 打呼噜 | |
| 1. Simplified form of 打呼嚕 | |
| 打呼嚕 | dǎ hūlu, dǎ hūlū |
| 1. v. to snore | |
| 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 | |
| 呼 | hū |
| 1. to breathe out; to exhale; to sigh | |
| 2. to shout; to yell | |
| 3. to call (someone); to address | |
| 4. (onomatopoeia, of wind) howling | |
| 5. (Chinese phonetics) medial; in Middle Chinese: being open-mouthed ((開口, tr=-)) or closed-mouthed ((zh-m, 合口, tr=-)), also called zh-m, 開合, tr=-); or, for modern Chinese: one of four medials (zh-m, 四呼 | |
| 6. Alternative form of 罅 (crack; rift) | |
| 噜 | |
| 1. Simplified form of 嚕 | |
| 嚕 | lū |
| 1. (zh-used2, c) | |
| 2. part. (Cantonese) (Used at end of sentence to indicate relief due to change of state) | |
| 終於 做完 嚕lu3！ - Finally it's finished! | |
| 3. part. (Cantonese) (Used at end of sentence to indicate disappointment due to change of state) | |
| 啲 錢 用 下 用 下，話咁快 就 用 嗮 嚕lu3 - As (I) kept on spending money, it was quick before it has all been used up! | |
Pronunciation
dǎ hū lū
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