打死

dǎsǐ

verb

Meanings

1 to beat to death
2 to kill (by hitting or shooting)
3 not even on pain of death

Characters

to hit; to beat

dead (the result)

Examples

HSK 1

这件事打死我也不说。

Zhè jiàn shì dǎsǐ wǒ yě bù shuō.

I won't tell anyone about this, not even if you kill me.

HSK 7-9

他一巴掌打死了一只蚊子。

Tā yì bāzhang dǎsǐ le yì zhī wénzi.

He killed a mosquito with one slap.

Tips

grammar

打 plus the result 死: the hitting ends in death, the same pattern as 淹死 'to drown' and 烧死 'to burn to death'. In speech, 打死也不 plus a verb means 'never, not even if you killed me': 打死也不去 'no way am I going'.

Stroke Order

打 dǎ

死 sǐ