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打量

dǎ liang

Old HSK 6 HSK 3.0 level 7-9 2-character word

打量 (dǎ liang) means "to size sb up; to look sb up and down; to take the measure of". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was HSK 6 in the old six-level list.

What 打量 means

1. to size sb up
2. to look sb up and down
3. to take the measure of
4. to suppose
5. to reckon

The characters in 打量

• 打dǎa semantically light, transitive verb that is combined with various grammatical objects…
• 量liàngcapacity; quantity; amount

Example sentences

• 他把我从头到脚打量了一番。
  Tā bǎ wǒ cóngtóudàojiǎo dǎliang le yī fān.
  He stared at me from head to foot.

Where 打量 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of HSK 6 Vocabulary · dǎ (HSK 6), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

Go deeper

• Every HSK 6 word, with the rest of its level.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read dǎ liang correctly.
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