Kanji Kaisen

漢字Kanji · in Human Body & People

打: strike, hit

Also: knock, pound, dozen

JLPT N35 strokesGrade 3Your ink: 白 Not met

扌 carries the meaning · 丁 gives the sound

5 strokes

Two readings, and the words that use each

ダda · on'yomi · in compounds

  • 打者だしゃbatter (baseball)
  • 打率だりつbatting average
  • 打撃だげきdamage, batting (baseball)
  • 打算的なださんてきなcalculating, mercenary
  • 打破するだはするoverthrow, abolish
  • 打診するだしんするsound someone out
  • 打倒するだとうするknockdown, overthrow

うつutsu · kun'yomi · on its own

  • 打つうつhit, strike

Also read ダース, うち-, ぶつ, with no example words in our sources. Words: Kanji alive, CC BY 4.0.

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Where it comes from

Origin · sourced

Phono-semantic compound (形聲)手 hand, as 扌 (meaning) + 丁 (sound)

Source: Wiktionary, 打 (rev. 93770331), CC BY-SA 4.0

Memory story · made up to help you remember

“Hand radical (扌) + nail/stake (丁) = imagine the motion of a hand striking a nail or a hammer hitting a stake firmly into the ground.”
From the 扌 hand story
繋がり
Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered
扌

Also built on hand (扌)

All 88
丁

Also built on street (丁)

The 丁 family reads チョウ (chou); 打 is read ダ、ダース.

Also read ダ

8 kanji share this on'yomi

Easy to confuse

The difference, side by side
打 strike · 丁
vs払 pay · 厶
打 has 丁 where 払 has 厶.
In ChineseSame character in simplified and traditional · dǎ

Same form: 打 is written the same way in mainland China (simplified) and in Taiwan and Hong Kong (traditional).

Simplified
打 mainland China, Singapore
Traditional
打 Taiwan, Hong Kong

Pinyin dǎ most common reading

Forms and pinyin: Unicode Unihan database (Unicode License v3). Pinyin lists the most common reading, not every reading.

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