打 量

dǎliang

“To size sb up” in Chinese is 打量 (dǎliang).

Meaning

to size sb up
to look sb up and down
to take the measure of

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to suppose
to reckon

Example

他把我从头到脚打量了一番。

He looked me over from head to foot.

Example sentence from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0).

Characters

dǎHSK 15 strokes(loanword) dozen liángHSK 212 strokesto measure

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Not to be confused with: 大量 (dàliàng, great amount)