Results for “打”

(finance) to participate in an IPO (initial public offering)

to revolve

erhua variant of 打旋[dǎ xuán]

earlier / long ago / as soon as possible

see 立春[Lì chūn]

to sound the night watches (on clappers or gongs, in former times)

to prune (branches)

to chop firewood / to gather firewood

to draw a rectangular grid (e.g. of farmland) / to checker

to bludgeon / to hit with a big stick

to drive piles into

pile driver (machinery)

to butt in / to interfere / to make things difficult

(Tw) to change gears

(Tw) manual transmission motorcycle (usually denotes a traditional-style motorcycle, as opposed to a scooter)

to kill / to beat to death

to kill

bicycle pump

to draw water / to splash water

to skip stones (on water) / (coll.) to squander one's money on a bad investment

humorous poem / limerick

to punch a hole / to drill a hole / to dig a hole / to burrow

to muddle things up / to goof off / to hang around

to wage guerrilla warfare / to fight as a guerrilla / (fig.) (coll.) to live or eat at no fixed place

to wet

to blow out / to blow off / (computer games) to zap / (phone) to ring off the hook / to be jammed / to max out (credit card etc)

to have a large and sumptuous meal (traditionally on the 1st and 15th of each month)

to beat a dog and bully its owner / fig. to humiliate sb indirectly by bullying a subordinate

lit. when one beats a dog, one must answer to its master (idiom) / fig. before punishing sb, one should consider how that would affect others associated with him

to take care of / to sort out / to manage / to put in order

a smaller variety of watermelon, with big, edible seeds

to pass the time

to write an IOU or promissory note

erhua variant of 打盹[dǎ dǔn]

to drill or bore a hole / to attract attention / conspicuous

casual labor / to work for a bit

to go to the bottom of things (idiom)

to smash up / to vandalize

DJ (disc jockey)

to pixelate an image / to key in captcha authentication codes