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To chat someone up
To pick up
She was accosted in the street by a complete stranger.
She went straight over and tried to chat him up.

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Open the tool →搭讪 (dā shàn) means “to strike up a conversation, to chat someone up, to pick up”.
搭讪 is pronounced dā shàn in Mandarin Chinese.
“To strike up a conversation” is 搭讪 (dā shàn) in Chinese.
This page has 2 example sentences using 搭讪, each with pinyin and an English translation.