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打擊軍事力量
Mandarin: da3 ji2 jun1 shi4 li4 liang4 (Taiwan), da3 ji1 jun1 shi4 li4 liang5
counterforce; 反對勢力 in Taiwan
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打擾
Mandarin: da3 rao3
disturb; bother; trouble
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打救
Mandarin: da3 jiu4
the act of saving or rescuing someone or something
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打敗
Mandarin: da3 bai4
to defeat; to beat; to overcome
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打敗仗
Mandarin: da3 bai4 zhang4
Simplified: 打败仗
to fall sick or ill; to be defeated
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打斗
Mandarin: da3 dou4
to tussle, to fight (orthographic variant of 打鬥)
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打斧頭
Mandarin: da3 fu3 tou5
Simplified: 打斧头
(phrasal verb) to get a rake off by secretly pocketing the part of the money that is meant for a specific purpose or the earnings from a transaction
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打斷
to interrupt; to cut short
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打昂瞓
Mandarin: da3 ang2 fen4
Cantonese
a sleeping position, to sleep on one's back
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打星
Mandarin: da3 xing1
martial arts movie star(s)
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打晒色
Mandarin: da3 shai4 se4
to become the leader; to make decisions on behalf of others
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打晒骰
Mandarin: da3 shai4 tou2
to be in command; to make all the decisions [colloquial]
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打更
Mandarin: da3 geng1
sound the night watches
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打架
Mandarin: da3 jia4
to fight. Cant.: 打交
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打柴
to gather firewood; [粵]: dead, of no further use, cannot be used
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打格仔
Mandarin: da3 ge2 zi3
pixelize
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打棘
Mandarin: da3 ji2
adj; intertwined (i.e. hair, thread)
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打樁
to drive a pile; set up a row of stakes
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打樁機
pile-driver
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打機
Mandarin: da3 you2 xi4
Simplified: 打游戏
Cantonese
to play video games (Cantonese)
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打機室
Mandarin: da3 ji1 shi4
Simplified: 打机室
gaming room
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打機癮
Mandarin: da3 ji1 yin3
Simplified: 打机瘾
video game addiction [colloquial]
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打機發燒友
Mandarin: da3 ji1 fa1shao1you3
Simplified: 打机发烧友
a video game fanatic [colloquial]
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打橫
Mandarin: da3 heng2
Simplified: 打横
horizontal position; describes a person who is unreasonable or irrational
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打橫嚟
Mandarin: da3 heng2 li2
Simplified: 打横嚟
Cantonese
unreasonable (spoken)
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打橫行
Cantonese
do whatever one pleases (lit., "walking across")
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打橫行
Mandarin: da3 heng2 hang2
Simplified: 打横行
verb; literally: walking horizontal (like the crab) extended meaning : domineering; ride roughshod; unreasonable
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打櫼
Mandarin: da3 jian1
verb; to cut in line; to jump a queue
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打死
Mandarin: da3 si3
to beat to death; to kill
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打死不離親兄弟
Mandarin: da3 si3 bu4 li2 qin1 xiong1 di4
Simplified: 打死不离亲兄弟
noun; brothers who are related have stronger obligations to each other than to people outside the family; "blood is thicker than water"
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