| 倒抽一口气 |
dào chōu yī kǒu qì |
to gasp (in surprise, dismay, fright etc) |
| 倒 |
dǎo |
to fall; to collapse; to lie horizontally / to fail; to go bankrupt / to overthrow / to change (trains or buses) / to move around / to resell at a profit |
| 倒 |
dào |
to invert; to place upside down or frontside back / to pour out / to tip out; to dump / inverted; upside down; reversed / to go backward / contrary to what one might expect; but; yet |
| 抽 |
chōu |
to draw out / to pull out from in between / to remove part of the whole / (of certain plants) to sprout or bud / to whip or thrash |
| 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 |
| 一口 |
yī kǒu |
readily / flatly (deny, admit and so on) / a mouthful / a bite |
| 一口气 |
yī kǒu qì |
one breath / in one breath / at a stretch |
| 口 |
kǒu |
mouth / classifier for things with mouths (people, domestic animals, cannons, wells etc) / classifier for bites or mouthfuls |
| 口气 |
kǒu qì |
tone of voice / the way one speaks / manner of expression / tone |
| 气 |
qì |
gas; air / smell / weather / to make angry; to annoy; to get angry / vital energy; qi |