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打dǎ退tuì堂táng鼓gǔ
  1. lit. to beat the return drum (idiom); fig. to give up; to turn tail

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Japanese data from JMdict, JMnedict, KANJIDIC2, and RADKFILE/KRADFILE (EDRDG). Chinese from CC-CEDICT. French and English from English Wiktionary via Wiktextract. Example sentences from Tatoeba. Stroke diagrams from KanjiVG. JLPT levels follow Jonathan Waller's lists. Full credits on the data and licences page.

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4
打
Strokes: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0

(loanword) dozen, Taiwan pr. [da3]

Pinyin
dá
Strokes
5
Frequency
195 of 2500
Words starting with 打Words ending in 打Anywhere in a word
退
Strokes: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0

to retreat; to withdraw, to reject; to return (sth), to decline

Pinyin
tuì
Strokes
9
Frequency
3835 of 2500
Words starting with 退Words ending in 退Anywhere in a word
堂
Strokes: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0

(main) hall, large room for a specific purpose, CL:間|间[jian1], relationship between cousins etc on the paternal side of a family, of the same clan, classifier for classes, lectures etc, classifier for sets of furniture

Pinyin
táng
Strokes
11
Frequency
15913 of 2500
Words starting with 堂Words ending in 堂Anywhere in a word
鼓
Strokes: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0

old variant of 鼓[gu3]

Pinyin
gǔ
Traditional
皷
Strokes
13
Frequency
12549 of 2500
Words starting with 鼓Words ending in 鼓Anywhere in a word