| 关门打狗 |
guān mén dǎ gǒu |
lit. shut the door and beat the dog (idiom) / fig. seal off the enemy's avenue of retreat, then strike hard |
| 关 |
Guān |
surname Guan |
| 关 |
guān |
mountain pass / to close; to shut; to turn off / to confine; to lock (sb) up; to shut (sb in a room, a bird in a cage etc) / to concern; to involve |
| 关门 |
guān mén |
to close a door / to lock a door / (of a shop etc) to close (for the night or permanently) |
| 门 |
Mén |
surname Men |
| 门 |
mén |
gate; door; doorway; gateway; opening (CL:扇) / valve; switch; other door-like or gate-like structure / way to do sth; knack; method; approach / family; household; lineage / (bound form) sect; school; faction (religious or academic) / (bound form) class; category; division; phylum / classifier for courses, fields of study, branches of technology, relatives by marriage, guns etc / (suffix) -gate (scandal) |
| 打 |
dá |
(loanword) dozen / Taiwan pr. [da3] |
| 打 |
dǎ |
to hit; to strike / to fight / (in many expressions) a semantically light transitive verb used with various objects to form expressions with a wide 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" / (coll.) from; since |
| 打狗 |
Dǎ gǒu |
Takow, Takao or Takau, old name for Kaohsiung 高雄 in the southwest of Taiwan |
| 狗 |
gǒu |
dog / CL:只,条 |