The Chinese word for to yawn is
打哈欠

dǎ hā qiàn

to yawn

Chinese Definition

yawn
1. 打哈欠
2. 大裂口
3. 打著哈欠说
4. 哈欠
5. 张开大口
6. 裂缝
7. 呵欠
8. 哈
9. 欠
Components
打
1. to hit; to strike; to slap; to beat
別打人。 - Don't hit people.
打蚊子 - to swat mosquitoes
把飛機打下來 - to shoot down an airplane
)” means “to beat (擊)”. Belongs to hand radical (手) and is pronounced like 丁 (teŋ)., ref=Shuowen*
2. to play the drums
3. 打鼓 - to play the drums
4. to fight; to attack
打架 - to come to blows; to fight
二戰 ^德國為什麼要打 ^蘇聯？ - In World War II, why did Germany attack the Soviet Union?
5. the act of beating up
他挨了一頓打。 - He was beaten up.
6. (Used as a dummy verb to make a verbal phrase from a noun, including but not limited to:)
7. to perform (a martial art)
8. 打太極拳 - to perform Tai Chi
9. to get; to fetch
10. 打水 - to get water
11. to buy (meat, soy sauce, oil, etc. at a grocery store)
12. 打.醬油 - to buy soy sauce
13. to guess; (the riddle) is about
14. 打一人物 - to guess a person
15. to make (a gesture, signal, etc.)
16. 打招呼 - to say hello
17. 打呵欠 - to yawn
18. 打右燈 - to put on the right turn signal (when driving)
19. to fabricate; to build
20. 打刀 - to make a knife
21. 打牆 - to build a wall
22. 打毛衣 - to knit a sweater
23. to stir
24. 打算盤 - to calculate with an abacus
25. 打方向盤 - to turn a steering wheel
26. 打蛋daan6-2 - to whip an egg
27. to break
28. 我把暖壺打了。 - I broke the vacuum flask.
29. 碗打了 - the bowl was broken by someone/something
30. 雞飛蛋打 - having lost everything
31. to open
32. 打帳子 - to open (or set up) the bed curtains
33. 打開 - to open
34. to dig
35. 打井 - to dig a well
36. to send or call
37. 打電報 - to send a telegraph
38. 打.電話 - to call on the telephone
39. 打手機 - to call on the cellphone
40. 到咗機場就打畀我。 - Call me when you arrive at the airport.
41. 對不bu起，打錯了。 - Sorry, I got the wrong number.
42. to pump (a tire, etc.); to inject
43. 打氣 - to pump air into something
44. 打疫苗 - to give a vaccine
45. 打顯影劑 - to inject IV contrast -
46. (involving gunpowder) to fire off; to set off; to attack
47. 打槍 - to fire a gun (mainly used in China)
48. 打炮仗zhang - to set off a firecracker
49. (vulgar) to perform sexual activity
50. 打炮 - to have sex
51. 打手槍 - to masturbate
52. to gather
53. 打成一片 - to get along well with everyone else
54. to attach
55. 打.蠟 - to wax
56. 打補丁 - to patch up
57. to lift
58. 打燈籠 - to carry a lighted lantern
59. to bite (said of insects that eat books, clothes)
60. to write
61. 打證明 - to write out a testimonial
62. 打介紹信 - to write a recommendation letter
63. to paint; to stamp
64. 打格子 - to draw a grid
65. 打郵戳 - to postmark
66. (computer) to type
67. 「啲\od的i1」字點打daa2？ - How do you type "(m, zh, 啲, o的"?)
68. to display (text, an image, etc.)
69. 屏幕上打出兩行háng 字。 - Two lines of text display on the screen.
70. to use (a computer, usually for entertainment)
71. 打電腦 - to use a computer
72. to play (a video game or console)
73. 打電動 - to play video game
74. to play (a sport involving balls with hand)
75. 打壁球 - to play squash
76. 打一場輸一場 - play a round and lose a round
77. 打波 - to play a ball game
78. to play (mahjong or poker, etc.)
79. 打麻雀zoek3-2 - to play mahjong
80. 打撲pú克kèr - to play poker, M-UIB
81. 打牌 - to play cards or mahjong
82. to tie (attention, zh, only refers to tying specific types of things?)
83. 打領結 - to tie a bowtie
84. 打煲呔 - to tie a bowtie
85. to reduce
86. 打.價 - to bargain
87. to remove
88. 打.蟲 - to kill insects
89. to stop
90. 打住 - to stop
91. to mark, to attach
92. 打個標籤 - to tag
93. (Cantonese) to correspond to; to be associated with
哈
1. (of fish) many; plenteous
2. (of a fish's mouth) opening; moving
3. (onomatopoeia) (sound of laughter:) ha
4. (exclamation of triumph, etc.:) ha!
5. (dialectal) (Sentence-final particle softening the request.)
6. to breathe out
7. (Taiwan Min Nan) to drink (hot tea)
8. Short for 哈薩克斯坦, gloss=Kazakhstan
9. Short for 哈爾濱, gloss=Harbin
10. (chiefly Mandarin Jin colloquial) to bend; to stoop
11. (Beijing) to scold; to reprimand
12. Only used in 哈巴 (Pekingese; pug, tr=hǎba)
13. (mainly among Hui people)
14. (zh-used2, c)
15. Only used in 哈喇 (gloss=a kind of top-quality woollen goods produced in Russia)
16. (Southwestern Mandarin, Xiang) silly; stupid
17. (Southwestern Mandarin) to tickle
18. Only used in 哈士蟆
19. Only used in 哈巴 (gloss=knee bending when walking)
20. Alternative form of 喝 (to drink)
21. Alternative form of 呷
22. Used in place names
23. Variant of 歃
24. Variant of ?
欠
1. to yawn
2. to lack; to be deficient
3. to owe
4. to ask for; to beg for
欠揍 - asking for a beating
5. (Wuhan) to miss somebody