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打小人 (daa2 siu2 jan2) — meaning, pronunciation, examples

打小人 (daa2 siu2 jan2, dǎ xiǎo rén) — a Chinese custom akin to a Voodoo doll, where a person can hire someone to use a wooden block or shoe to hit a man-shaped piece of paper with another person's name and birth date (or other details) on it, believing that it can curse one's enemy with bad luck

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Usage

Level

beyond HSK

Related words

• 打主意 (daa2 zyu2 ji3) — to think of a plan; to think of an idea to take advantage of certain people
• 打乞嗤 (daa2 hat1 ci1) — sneeze
• 打亂 (daa2 lyun6) — to mess up; to disrupt; to cause chaos
• 打亂種 (daa2 lyun6 zung2) — people of mixed ethnicities; bastard
• 打交叉 (daa2 gaau1 caa1) — to draw a cross; to cross out
• 打交 (daa2 gaau1) — (verb) to fight; to scuffle;

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