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HSK
7-9

to interrupt

Character Composition


Characters

Pinyin

da3cha4 dǎchà

Meaning


Primary

to interrupt

Alternatives

interrupt, interrupts, interrupting, interrupted

Mnemonic


打岔 To interrupt is 打 to strike the natural flow of a conversation and to make it 岔 diverge towards the thing you want to say. How rude!

Usage


他 總是 喜歡 打岔, 讓人 很 煩。

He always likes to interrupt, which is very annoying.

老師 生氣 了, 因為 有人 打岔。

The teacher got angry because someone interrupted.

請 不要 在 我 說話 的 時候 打岔。

Please don't interrupt me while I'm speaking.

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