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CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY

打气

dǎqì

to inflate; to pump up

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DEFINITIONS & USAGE

Meaning and common use

01

to inflate; to pump up

02

(fig.) to encourage; to boost morale

REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES

How 打气 actually appears in real sentences.

These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 打气 appears in 2 of the 89,190 sentences we searched. Sentences without a published English translation are shown in Chinese only.

球员们坐在更衣室,听教练给他们打气。qiú yuán men zuò zài gēng yī shì, tīng jiào liàn gěi tā men dǎ qì。

The players sat and listened to their coach give them a pep talk in the changing rooms.

我煮了一些他喜欢的食物替他打气。wǒ zhǔ le yī xiē tā xǐ huān de shí wù tì tā dǎ qì。

No published English translation for this sentence.

COMMON COLLOCATIONS

Words that keep company with 打气.

Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 打气.

Directly before

  • 他打气1
  • 他们打气1

Directly after

  • No repeated neighbour in the corpus.
ABOUT THIS ENTRY

Where this entry comes from

The HSK level, part of speech, and pronunciation come from the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus. The English definitions come from CC-CEDICT. Corpus sentences, collocations, and the frequency figure come from the Tatoeba Chinese sentence export and are counted rather than written, so nothing on this page is invented. Usage notes and the hand-written examples that appear higher up exist only for a handful of entries.

Definitions from CC-CEDICT, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Vocabulary levels and parts of speech from the HSK 3.1 syllabus. This compiled dictionary is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

COMMON QUESTIONS

About 打气

What does 打气 mean in Chinese?

打气 (dǎqì) means to inflate; to pump up.

How do you pronounce 打气?

打气 is pronounced dǎqì.

Is 打气 an HSK word?

打气 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.

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