# 打 — Hit

Frequency rank 340 / 2,608 in published Japanese.

Frequent enough that you will keep running into it once you read past headlines.

More common than 格 (Status), less common than 任 (Duty).

- On’yomi: だ
- Kun’yomi: う
- Radical: 手 Hand (Kangxi 64)
- Frequency path: Level III of XX

Fingers (fingers) on the left and a street (street) on the right — you extend your fingers at the street corner to hail a taxi, hitting the button to stop it.

In words:

- 打つ うつ — to hit
- 打開 だかい — break in the deadlock
- 打撃 だげき — 1.  blow;shock;strike;damage; 2.  batting (baseball)

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