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打听

dǎ ting

Old HSK 5 HSK 3.0 level 5 2-character word Traditional 打聽

打听 (dǎ ting) means "to ask about". It is an HSK 3.0 level 5 word, and was HSK 5 in the old six-level list.

What 打听 means

1. to ask about
2. to make some inquiries
3. to ask around

The characters in 打听

• 打dǎa semantically light, transitive verb that is combined with various grammatical objects…
• 听tīngto listen to; to hear; to heed; to obey; a can (loanword from English "tin")

Example sentences

• 我打听他是谁。
  I asked who he was.

Where 打听 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of Social Interaction & Communication (HSK 5), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

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