打下

Chinese

		beat; strike; break beat; strike; break; mix up; build; fight; fetch; make; tie up; issue; shoot; calculate; since; from; dozen	under; next; lower under; next; lower; below; underneath; down(wards); to go down; latter
simp. and trad. (打下)		打	下

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): dǎxià

  (Zhuyin): ㄉㄚˇ ㄒㄧㄚˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): daa² haa⁶
• Hakka (Sixian, PFS): tá-hâ

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: dǎxià
    • Zhuyin: ㄉㄚˇ ㄒㄧㄚˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: dǎsià
    • Wade–Giles: ta³-hsia⁴
    • Yale: dǎ-syà
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: daashiah
    • Palladius: дася (dasja)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tä²¹⁴⁻²¹ ɕi̯ä⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: daa² haa⁶
    • Yale: dá hah
    • Cantonese Pinyin: daa² haa⁶
    • Guangdong Romanization: da² ha⁶
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /taː³⁵ haː²²/
• Hakka
  • (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: tá-hâ
    • Hakka Romanization System: da^ˋ ha^ˊ
    • Hagfa Pinyim: da³ ha¹
    • Sinological IPA: /ta³¹ ha²⁴/

Verb

打下

1. to conquer; to overcome
2. to lay (a foundation)

   打下基礎／打下基础  ―  dǎxià jīchǔ  ―  to lay a foundation