打麻雀

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Chinese

beat; strike; break
beat; strike; break; mix up; build; fight; fetch; make; tie up; issue; shoot; calculate; since; from; dozen
 
sparrow, especially the tree sparrow
trad. (打麻雀) 麻雀
simp. #(打麻雀) 麻雀

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Verb

打⫽麻雀 (verb-object)

  1. (dialectal) to play mahjong
  2. (literally) to shoot sparrows
    打麻雀運動打麻雀运动  ―  dǎmáquè yùndòng  ―  Smash Sparrows Campaign (one of the Four Pests campaigns organized by Mao Zedong)

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