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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”.
车chēcar
七seven · qī
十ten · shí
Memory aidSimplified from 車: a cart seen from above, with its axle and two wheels.
How to write 打车
打 5 strokes · 车 4 strokes
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Stroke order chart for 打车 (dǎchē). Red marks the next stroke, so you can copy it onto paper one step at a time.
打车 (dǎchē) means “to take a taxi (in town)” or “to hitch a lift”. It is an HSK 3.0 Level 2 word.
Say it dǎchē: dǎ with a 3rd tone, then chē 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, 打车 is written 打車. The pronunciation is the same.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type dache with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 打车 from the suggestions. Typing dache into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
打车 is an HSK 3.0 Level 2 word in the official 2021 syllabus, and it is on our HSK 3.0 Band 2 word list. It is not on the older 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). Example sentences written by WillyChina. Character parts and stroke order from Make Me a Hanzi.
打dǎ3rd tone, dipping
车chē1st tone, high and level
