打招呼 |
dǎ zhāo hu |
to greet sb by word or action / to give prior notice |
打 |
dá |
(loanword) dozen / Taiwan pr. [da3] |
打 |
dǎ |
a semantically light, transitive verb that is combined with various grammatical objects to form compound verbs and verb-object phrases with a diverse range of meanings (e.g. 打伞 "to hold an umbrella", 打电话 "to make a phone call", 打针 "to get an injection", 打手套 "to knit gloves", 打气 "to inflate") / to hit; to strike / to fight / (coll.) from; since (as in 打那以后 "since then") |
招 |
zhāo |
to recruit / to provoke / to beckon / to incur / to infect / contagious / a move (chess) / a maneuver / device / trick / to confess |
招呼 |
zhāo hu |
to call out to / to greet / to say hello to / to inform / to take care of / to take care that one does not |
呼 |
hū |
to call / to cry / to shout / to breath out / to exhale |
呼 |
hū |
variant of 呼 / to shout / to call out |