打流

Chinese

		beat; strike; break beat; strike; break; mix up; build; fight; fetch; make; tie up; issue; shoot; calculate; since; from; dozen	to flow; to spread; to circulate to flow; to spread; to circulate; to move
trad. (打流)		打	流
simp. #(打流)		打	流

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): dǎliú

  (Zhuyin): ㄉㄚˇ ㄌㄧㄡˊ

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: dǎliú
    • Zhuyin: ㄉㄚˇ ㄌㄧㄡˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: dǎlióu
    • Wade–Giles: ta³-liu²
    • Yale: dǎ-lyóu
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: daaliou
    • Palladius: далю (dalju)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tä²¹⁴⁻²¹ li̯oʊ̯³⁵/

Verb

打流

1. (dialectal) Synonym of 流浪 (liúlàng, “to lead a vagrant life”)

   • 全然無業，即既無土地，又無資金，完全失去生活依據，不得不出外當兵，或出去做工，或打流當乞丐的，都是「赤貧」，占百分之二十。 [MSC, trad.]
     全然无业，即既无土地，又无资金，完全失去生活依据，不得不出外当兵，或出去做工，或打流当乞丐的，都是「赤贫」，占百分之二十。 [MSC, simp.]

     From: 1927, 毛澤東 (Mao Zedong), 《湖南農民運動考察報告》 (Report on an Investigation of the Peasant Movement in Hunan), 《毛澤東選集》. English translation based on the Foreign Languages Press edition

     Quánrán wúyè, jí jì wú tǔdì, yòu wú zījīn, wánquán shīqù shēnghuó yījù, bùdébù chūwài dāngbīng, huò chūqù zuògōng, huò dǎliú dāng qǐgài de, dōu shì “chìpín”, zhàn bǎifēn zhī èrshí. [Pinyin]

     The utterly destitute, comprising 20 per cent, are the completely dispossessed, that is, people who have neither land nor money, are without any means of livelihood, and are forced to leave home and become mercenaries or hired labourers or wandering beggars.