打小人

Chinese

		beat; strike; break beat; strike; break; mix up; build; fight; fetch; make; tie up; issue; shoot; calculate; since; from; dozen	scoundrel or villain; person of low position
simp. and trad. (打小人)		打	小人

打⫽小人 (verb-object)

to perform villain hitting (a type of folk sorcery popular in Guangdong and Hong Kong)

Dialectal synonyms of 打小人 (“to perform villain hitting”) [map]

Variety	Location	Words edit
Formal (Written Standard Chinese)		打小人
Mandarin	Taiwan	打小人
Mandarin	Singapore	打小人
Cantonese	Guangzhou	打小人
	Hong Kong	打小人
	Singapore (Guangfu)	打小人
Southern Min	Singapore (Hokkien)	拍小人

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