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打扮

dǎ ban

Old HSK 4 HSK 3.0 level 5 2-character word

打扮 (dǎ ban) means "to dress up; to style oneself". It is an HSK 3.0 level 5 word, and was HSK 4 in the old six-level list.

What 打扮 means

1. to decorate
2. to dress
3. to make up
4. to adorn
5. manner of dressing
6. style of dress

The characters in 打扮

• 打dǎa semantically light, transitive verb that is combined with various grammatical objects…
• 扮bànto disguise oneself as; to dress up; to play (a role)

Example sentences

• 汤姆打扮成吸血鬼。
  Tom is dressed as a vampire.
• 他打扮得像女人一样。
  Tā dǎban de xiàng nǚrén yīyàng.
  He disguised himself as a woman.
• 玛丽打扮成一个女巫。
  Mǎlì dǎban chéng yī gè nǚwū.
  Mary dressed up as a witch.
• 我不在乎别人怎么看我的打扮。
  Wǒ bù zàihu biéren zěnme kàn wǒ de dǎban.
  I don't care what people think about the way I dress.
• 她打扮得妖里妖气，一副傻样！
  Tā dǎban de yāoli-yāoqì, yī fù shǎ yàng!
  She dresses so outrageously; it looks completely ridiculous!
• 她在晚饭前把自己梳洗打扮了一下。
  Tā zài wǎnfàn qián bǎ zìjǐ shūxǐ dǎban le yīxià.
  She freshened herself up before supper.

Words containing 打扮

• 短打扮duǎn dǎ banclothing that exposes the arms and legs (e.g. shorts, sleeveless top)…
• 乔装打扮qiáo zhuāng dǎ bànto dress up in disguise (idiom); to pretend for the purpose of deceit
• 穿着打扮chuān zhuó dǎ bànstyle of dress; one's appearance

Where 打扮 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of Appearance & physical state (HSK 4), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

Go deeper

• Every HSK 4 word, with the rest of its level.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read dǎ ban correctly.
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