| 一炮打响 |
yī pào dǎ xiǎng |
(idiom) to hit the jackpot with a single shot; to achieve success at one's first try |
| 一 |
yī |
one / single / a (article) / as soon as / entire; whole; all; throughout / "one" radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 1) / also pr. [yao1] for greater clarity when spelling out numbers digit by digit |
| 炮 |
bāo |
to sauté / to fry / to dry by heating |
| 炮 |
páo |
to prepare herbal medicine by roasting or parching (in a pan) |
| 炮 |
pào |
cannon / CL:座 / firecracker |
| 炮 |
pào |
variant of 炮 |
| 打 |
dá |
(loanword) dozen / Taiwan pr. [da3] |
| 打 |
dǎ |
a semantically light, transitive verb that is combined with various grammatical objects to form compound verbs and verb-object phrases with a diverse range of meanings (e.g. 打伞 "to hold an umbrella", 打电话 "to make a phone call", 打针 "to get an injection", 打手套 "to knit gloves", 打气 "to inflate") / to hit; to strike / to fight / (coll.) from; since (as in 打那以后 "since then") |
| 打响 |
dǎ xiǎng |
to start shooting or firing / to win an initial success / to succeed (of a plan) |
| 响 |
xiǎng |
echo / sound / noise / to make a sound / to sound / to ring / loud / classifier for noises |