打 dǎ
- Strokes
- 5
- Radical
- 扌 — hand
- Made of
- 扌 hand 丁 nail
- How it's built
- Phono-semantic — one part hints at the meaning, another at the sound
打捞
dǎlāo
to salvage; to recover from water
Characters in this word
捞 lāo
- Strokes
- 10
- Radical
- 扌 — hand
- Made of
- 扌 hand 劳 to labor, to toil
- How it's built
- Phono-semantic — one part hints at the meaning, another at the sound
Example phrases
- 救援队连夜打捞沉船残骸，以便查明事故真正原因。 Jiùyuán duì liányè dǎlāo chénchuán cánhái, yǐbiàn chámíng shìgù zhēnzhèng yuányīn. The rescue team salvaged the wreckage of the sunken boat overnight in order to determine the real cause of the accident.
- 渔民用网从河里打捞起一只旧木箱。 Yúmín yòng wǎng cóng hé lǐ dǎlāo qǐ yì zhī jiù mùxiāng. Fishermen used a net to haul an old wooden chest out of the river.
- 他的手机掉进湖里，请人帮忙打捞了很久。 Tā de shǒujī diào jìn hú lǐ, qǐng rén bāngmáng dǎlāo le hěn jiǔ. His phone fell into the lake, and he asked people to help fish it out for a long time.
Related words
- 打 dǎ to hit; to play (a ball game); to make (a call)
- 打车 dǎchē to take a taxi
- 打电话 dǎdiànhuà to make a phone call
- 打开 dǎkāi to open, to turn on
- 打球 dǎqiú to play ball
- 打工 dǎgōng to work a temporary job
- 打算 dǎsuàn to plan; plan
- 打印 dǎyìn to print
- 打破 dǎpò to break
- 打听 dǎting to ask around; to find out
- 打 dá a dozen (measure word)
- 打败 dǎbài to defeat