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拨打

bō dǎ

Old HSK 6 HSK 3.0 level 5 2-character word Traditional 撥打

拨打 (bō dǎ) means "to call". It is an HSK 3.0 level 5 word, and was HSK 6 in the old six-level list.

What 拨打 means

1. to call
2. to dial

The characters in 拨打

• 拨bōto push aside with the hand, foot, a stick etc; to dial; to allocate
• 打dǎa semantically light, transitive verb that is combined with various grammatical objects…

Example sentences

• 莎米拨打了客服热线。
  Sami called the customer service line.
• 我拨打了Tom的号码。
  Wǒ bōdǎ le T om de hàomǎ.
  I dialed Tom's number.
• 若有火警，拨打119。
  In case of fire, dial 119.
• 遇到火警时，拨打119。
  In case of fire, dial 119.
• 在紧急情况下，可拨打 119。
  In case of emergency, call 119.
• 假如你认识这张脸，请拨打110！
  Jiǎrú nǐ rènshi zhè zhāng liǎn, qǐng bōdǎ yāo yāo líng!
  If you recognize this person, call 110!

Where 拨打 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of HSK 6 Vocabulary · biǎo–bō (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 bō dǎ correctly.
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