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打岔

dǎ chà

HSK 3.0 level 7-9 2-character word

打岔 (dǎ chà) means "interruption; to interrupt (esp. talk); to change the subject". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was not on the old six-level HSK list.

What 打岔 means

1. interruption
2. to interrupt (esp. talk)
3. to change the subject

The characters in 打岔

• 打dǎa semantically light, transitive verb that is combined with various grammatical objects…
• 岔chàfork in road; bifurcation; branch in road, river, mountain range etc

Example sentences

• 别打岔!
  Bié dǎchà!
  Don't cut in!

Sounds the same

Read dǎ chà, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 打杈to prune (branches)

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• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read dǎ chà correctly.
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