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打招呼

dǎ zhāo hu

Old HSK 5 HSK 3.0 level 4 3-character word

打招呼 (dǎ zhāo hu) means "to greet sb by word or action". It is an HSK 3.0 level 4 word, and was HSK 5 in the old six-level list.

What 打招呼 means

1. to greet sb by word or action
2. to give prior notice

The characters in 打招呼

• 打dǎa semantically light, transitive verb that is combined with various grammatical objects…
• 招zhāoto recruit; to provoke; to beckon
• 呼hūto call; to cry; to shout

Example sentences

• 每次见面都打招呼。
  Greet someone every time you meet them.
• 她挥着手向他打招呼。
  Tā huīzhe shǒu xiàng tā dǎ zhāohu.
  She greeted him waving her hand.
• 那女孩跟我微笑打招呼。
  Nà nǚhái gēn wǒ wēixiào dǎzhāohu.
  That girl smiled and waved to me.
• 他们面带微笑向我打招呼。
  They greeted me with a smile.
• 她面带微笑向我们打招呼。
  She greeted us with a smile.
• 汤姆在街的那边向她打招呼。
  Tāngmǔ zài jiē de nàbian xiàng tā dǎzhāohu.
  Tom called to her across the street.

Where 打招呼 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.

Go deeper

• Every HSK 5 word, with the rest of its level.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read dǎ zhāo hu correctly.
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