打坐

Chinese

		beat; strike; break beat; strike; break; mix up; build; fight; fetch; make; tie up; issue; shoot; calculate; since; from; dozen	to sit; to take a seat; to take (a bus, aeroplane, etc.)
simp. and trad. (打坐)		打	坐

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): dǎzuò

  (Zhuyin): ㄉㄚˇ ㄗㄨㄛˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): daa² zo⁶
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): táⁿ-chō

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: dǎzuò
    • Zhuyin: ㄉㄚˇ ㄗㄨㄛˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: dǎzuò
    • Wade–Giles: ta³-tso⁴
    • Yale: dǎ-dzwò
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: daatzuoh
    • Palladius: дацзо (daczo)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tä²¹⁴⁻²¹ t͡su̯ɔ⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: daa² zo⁶
    • Yale: dá joh
    • Cantonese Pinyin: daa² dzo⁶
    • Guangdong Romanization: da² zo⁶
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /taː³⁵ t͡sɔː²²/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: táⁿ-chō
    • Tâi-lô: tánn-tsō
    • Phofsit Daibuun: dvafzoi
    • IPA (Xiamen): /tã⁵³⁻⁴⁴ t͡so²²/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /tã⁵⁵⁴⁻²⁴ t͡so⁴¹/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /tã⁵³⁻⁴⁴ t͡so²²/
    • IPA (Taipei): /tã⁵³⁻⁴⁴ t͡so³³/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /tã⁴¹⁻⁴⁴ t͡sɤ³³/

Verb

打坐

1. to sit in meditation

Derived terms

• 打坐坡

 

Further reading

• Ding, Fubao (丁福保) (1922), “打坐” in 佛學大辭典 [A Dictionary of Chinese Buddhist Terms].