HSK 4 · Verbs

打扮 dǎban “to decorate” in Chinese

Same in Traditional

What 打扮 means

  1. to decorate
  2. to dress
  3. to make up
  4. to adorn
  5. manner of dressing
More meanings from CC-CEDICT
  • style of dress

How to say 打扮

  • 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 neutral tone: short and light, with no contour of its own扮banneutral tone, light and short

Grey pinyin is a neutral tone: say it short and light. More on the neutral tone

打扮 in a sentence

  1. 她很会打扮，所以不管穿上什么都合适。

    Tā hěn huì dǎban, suǒyǐ bùguǎn chuān shàng shénme dōu héshì.

    She knows how to dress, so whatever she wears looks good on her.

    Sentence #429342 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

  2. 为了她的重要约会，她精心打扮了一下。

    Wèile tā de zhòngyào yuēhuì, tā jīngxīn dǎban le yíxià.

    She got all dressed up for her big date.

    Sentence #817341 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

  3. 我不在乎别人怎么看我的打扮。

    Wǒ bú zàihu biéren zěnme kàn wǒ de dǎban.

    I don’t care what people think about the way I dress.

    Sentence #506877 from Tatoeba · converted to simplified characters · translation adapted

How 打扮 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 扮 (bàn) with each of its parts in a different colour
扮bànto disguise oneself aslight in 打扮
  • 扌hand form of 手 · shǒuMeaning part
  • 分to divide · fēnSound part

扌 hints at the meaning (hand); 分 (fēn) hints at the sound. Compare it with ban.

How to write 打扮

打 5 strokes · 扮 7 strokes

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

Words related to 打扮

Words with 打

打电话dǎ diànhuà · to make a phone call打dǎ · to hit打车dǎchē · to take a taxi (in town)打开dǎkāi · to open打篮球dǎlánqiú · to play basketball打扫dǎsǎo · to clean打算dǎsuàn · to plan打扰dǎrǎo · to disturb打印dǎyìn · to print (with a printer)打折dǎzhé · to give a discount

Words with 扮

扮演bànyǎn · to play the role of

More words: Common Verbs

出生chūshēng · to be born传真chuánzhēn · fax出现chūxiàn · to appear存cún · to exist倒dǎo · to fall打扰dǎrǎo · to disturb打印dǎyìn · to print (with a printer)打折dǎzhé · to give a discount

FAQs

打扮 (dǎban) means “to decorate” or “to dress”. It is an HSK 4 word.
Say it dǎban: dǎ with a 3rd tone, then ban with a neutral tone. Press Listen at the top of this page to hear it, or Slowly to hear each tone clearly.
Yes. 打扮 is written the same way in Simplified and Traditional characters.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type daban with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 打扮 from the suggestions. Typing daban into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
打扮 is an HSK 4 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.