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打翻

dǎfān

to overturn

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DEFINITIONS & USAGE

Meaning and common use

01

to overturn

02

to overthrow

03

to strike down (an enemy)

REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES

How 打翻 actually appears in real sentences.

These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 打翻 appears in 3 of the 89,190 sentences we searched. Sentences without a published English translation are shown in Chinese only.

为打翻的牛奶而哭泣是没用的。wèi dǎ fān de niú nǎi ér kū qì shì méi yòng de。

There's no use crying over spilt milk.

我突然跳起来的时候把花瓶桌子上的打翻了。wǒ tū rán tiào qǐ lái de shí hòu bǎ huā píng zhuō zi shàng de dǎ fān le。

The vase on my desk overturned when I jumped up in surprise.

墨水瓶放在桌子边上的话很容易被打翻。mò shuǐ píng fàng zài zhuō zi biān shàng de huà hěn róng yì bèi dǎ fān。

No published English translation for this sentence.

COMMON COLLOCATIONS

Words that keep company with 打翻.

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

Directly before

  • 为打翻1
  • 的打翻1
  • 被打翻1

Directly after

  • 打翻的1
  • 打翻了1
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 打翻

What does 打翻 mean in Chinese?

打翻 (dǎfān) means to overturn.

How do you pronounce 打翻?

打翻 is pronounced dǎfān.

Is 打翻 an HSK word?

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

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