(idiom) to launch an all-out attack; to roundly condemn; to castigate
trad. 大張撻伐
Also written 大張撻伐【dà zhāng tà fá】
Characters in this word
4大
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big; large; great, older (than another person), eldest (as in 大姐[da4 jie3]), greatly; freely; fully, (dialect) father, (dialect) uncle (father's brother)
- Pinyin
- dà
- Strokes
- 3
- Frequency
- 199 of 2500
张
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surname Zhang
- Pinyin
- Zhāng
- Traditional
- 張
- Strokes
- 7
- Frequency
- 1981 of 2500
挞
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(bound form) to whip; to flog, (loanword) (pastry) tart (colloquial pr. [ta3])
- Pinyin
- tà
- Traditional
- 撻
- Strokes
- 9
伐
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to cut down, to fell, to dispatch an expedition against, to attack, to boast, Taiwan pr. [fa1]
- Pinyin
- fá
- Strokes
- 6
- Frequency
- 19061 of 2500