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

= + : Don Quixote (d) got lost in the ashram (a3) and is afraid of being beaten (打). He equips himself with a claw (扌) for the left hand and a nail (丁) for the right hand, ready to beat (打) anyone approaching him.

打 character breakdown

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

= + : Mnemonic symobl: a nail. 一 is the head of the nail and 亅 is the shaft. The point of the nail is already a bit bent.

Dorothy Gale (di) balances a flute (一) on a crowbar (亅) in front of the engine ((e)ng1). For this trick, she wins the fourth (丁) place in an artists competition and gets a quarter (丁) of a pizza as prize. Unfortunately, there is a big nail (mnemonic symbol for 丁) on the pizza slice.
"hand" radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 64), occurring in 提, 把, 打 etc

= + : Mnemonic symbol: a toy claw.

Characters with 打 as component

da! (sound used to move animals along)

Words with 打

to move (to pity) / arousing (sympathy) / touching
to stop / to halt
soda (loanword)
to hiccup / to belch / to burp
hired thug
to beat a prisoner (to obtain confessions) / to give sb the third degree / to torture
to open access / to establish contact / to remove a block / to put through (a phone connection)
to size sb up / to look sb up and down / to take the measure of / to suppose / to reckon
to salvage / to dredge / to fish out (person or object from the sea)
(coll.) since

Sentences with 打

nà
bì
mǎ
we̅n
dǎ
fa̅n
le
mǎ
tia̅n
ju̅n
 
 
dǎo
huǐ
le
yù
mǎ
jia̅n