打

dozen (loanword)

to beat / to strike / to hit / to break / to type / to mix up / to build / to fight / to fetch / to make / to tie up / to issue / to shoot / to calculate / to play (a game) / since / from

male adult / the 4th of the 10 Heavenly Stems 天干[tian1 gan1] / fourth (used like "4" or "D") / small cube of meat or vegetable / (literary) to encounter / (archaic) ancient Chinese compass point: 195° / (chemistry) butyl

"hand" radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 64), occurring in 提, 把, 打 etc

lit. to catch everything in the one net (idiom) / fig. to scoop up the whole lot / to capture them all in one go

to deal a single fatal blow / (fig.) to totally repudiate sb because of a minor error

to win instant success (idiom) / to start off successfully

three days without a beating, and a child will scale the roof to rip the tiles (idiom) / spare the rod, spoil the child

lit. to fish for three days and sun-dry the nets for two days (proverb) / fig. not to persevere in doing sth / to do sth by fits and starts

spare the rod and spoil the child (idiom)

spare the rod and spoil the child (idiom)

don't fight, won't make friends (idiom); an exchange of blows may lead to friendship

(idiom) to hit the jackpot with a single shot; to achieve success at one's first try

dozen