HSK 6 · Verbs

打击 dǎjī “to strike” in Chinese

Traditional 打擊

What 打击 means

  1. to strike
  2. to attack
  3. a blow
  4. to hit
  5. to crack down on sth
More meanings from CC-CEDICT
  • (psychological) shock

How to say 打击

  • Pitch chart of the third tone: dips low then rises, 2 to 1 to 4 on the five-level scale打dǎ3rd tone, dipping
  • Pitch chart of the first tone: stays high and level, 5 to 5 on the five-level scale击jī1st tone, high and level

打击 in a sentence

  1. 这会打击我们的生意。

    Zhè huì dǎjī wǒmen de shēngyi.

    This could hurt our business.

    Sentence #5613631 from Tatoeba

  2. 奶奶去世让全家都受了打击。

    Nǎinai qùshì ràng quánjiā dōu shòu le dǎjī.

    Grandma’s death was a heavy blow to the whole family.

    Sentence #2442220 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

  3. 我不想打击你的。

    Wǒ bù xiǎng dǎjī nǐ de.

    I didn’t mean to discourage you.

    Sentence #13137928 from Tatoeba · converted to simplified characters

How 打击 is built

Each colour is one part of the character. Parts repeat across thousands of characters, so learning them makes new words easier. See all 214 in our radicals chart.

The character 打 (dǎ) with each of its parts in a different colour
打dǎto hit; to strike
  • 扌hand form of 手 · shǒuMeaning part
  • 丁part of the characterSound part

Memory aidA hand 扌 striking a nail 丁: to hit. It is now used for many actions, such as 打电话 (dǎ diànhuà) “to phone”.

The character 击 (jī) drawn as one shape
击jīto hit

击 is a single shape of 5 strokes. Learn it whole, then watch its stroke order below.

How to write 打击

打 5 strokes · 击 5 strokes

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打击 (dǎjī) stroke order chart: each stroke of the characters in the order you write them
Stroke order chart for 打击 (dǎjī). Red marks the next stroke, so you can copy it onto paper one step at a time.

Words related to 打击

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FAQs

打击 (dǎjī) means “to strike” or “to attack”. It is an HSK 6 word.
Say it dǎjī: dǎ with a 3rd tone, then jī with a 1st tone. Press Listen at the top of this page to hear it, or Slowly to hear each tone clearly.
In Traditional characters, used in Taiwan and Hong Kong, 打击 is written 打擊. The pronunciation is the same.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type daji with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 打击 from the suggestions. Typing daji into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
打击 is an HSK 6 word in the HSK 2.0 word lists.

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Sources: meaning and pinyin checked by a native Mandarin teacher against the official HSK lists. Extra meanings from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR). Character parts and stroke order from Make Me a Hanzi.