| 大炮打蚊子 |
dà pào dǎ wén zi |
cannon fire to hit a mosquito / to use a sledgehammer to crack a nut |
| 大 |
dà |
big; large; great / older (than another person) / eldest (as in 大姐) / greatly; freely; fully / (dialect) father / (dialect) uncle (father's brother) |
| 大 |
dài |
see 大夫 |
| 大炮 |
dà pào |
big gun / cannon / artillery / one who talks big / CL:门,尊 |
| 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 |
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 |
| 蚊 |
wén |
mosquito |
| 蚊 |
wén |
old variant of 蚊 |
| 蚊 |
wén |
old variant of 蚊 |
| 蚊子 |
wén zi |
mosquito |
| 子 |
zǐ |
son / child / seed / egg / small thing / 1st earthly branch: 11 p.m.–1 a.m., midnight, 11th solar month (7th December to 5th January), year of the rat / viscount, fourth of five orders of nobility 五等爵位 / ancient Chinese compass point: 0° (north) / subsidiary; subordinate; (prefix) sub- |
| 子 |
zi |
noun suffix, as in 椅子 "chair" |