打听

Character by character

• 打dǎ5 strokesHSK 1strike, hit, beat; fight; attack
• 听tīng7 strokesHSK 1 traditional 聽hear; understand; obey, comply; one pound

Each character links to its stroke order page with a tracing and a writing exercise.

Words with the same characters

These words share at least one character with 打听. Reading them together is how the character starts to stick — the same characters in a different context.

• 打dǎHSK 1

  to beat; to strike; to hit; to break; to type; to mix up; to build; to fight; to fetch; to make; to tie up; to issue; to shoot; to calculate; to play (a game); since; from

• 听tīngHSK 1

  to listen to; to hear; to heed; to obey; a can (loanword from English "tin"); classifier for canned beverages; to let be; to allow (Taiwan pr. [tìng]); (literary) to administer; to deal with (Taiwan pr. [tìng])

• 听到tīng dàoHSK 1

  to hear

• 打开dǎ kāiHSK 1

  to open; to show (a ticket); to turn on; to switch on

• 打电话dǎ diàn huàHSK 1

  to make a telephone call

• 听说tīng shuōHSK 2

  to hear (sth said); one hears (that); hearsay; listening and speaking

• 打算dǎ suànHSK 2

  to plan; to intend; to calculate; plan; intention; calculation

• 打击dǎ jīHSK 5

  to hit; to strike; to attack; to crack down on sth; blow; (psychological) shock; percussion (music)

• 听见tīng jiànHSK 1

  to hear

• 打破dǎ pòHSK 3

  to break; to smash

• 好听hǎo tīngHSK 1

  pleasant to hear

• 打扮dǎ banHSK 5

  to decorate; to dress; to make up; to adorn; manner of dressing; style of dress

• 打扰dǎ rǎoHSK 5

  to disturb; to bother; to trouble

• 打工dǎ gōngHSK 2

  to work a temporary or casual job; (of students) to have a job outside of class time, or during vacation

• 打败dǎ bàiHSK 4

  to defeat; to overpower; to beat; to be defeated

• 打架dǎ jiàHSK 5

  to fight; to scuffle; to come to blows

• 打造dǎ zàoHSK 6

  to create; to build; to develop; to forge (of metal)

• 打球dǎ qiúHSK 1

  to play ball; to play with a ball

• 打断dǎ duànHSK 6

  to interrupt; to break off; to break (a bone)

• 打扫dǎ sǎoHSK 4

  to clean; to sweep

• 拨打bō dǎHSK 6

  to call; to dial

• 打动dǎ dòngHSK 6

  to move (to pity); arousing (sympathy); touching

• 听取tīng qǔHSK 6

  to hear (news); to listen to

• 听话tīng huàHSK 7

  to do what one is told; obedient