| 夹起尾巴 |
jiā qǐ wěi ba |
to tuck one's tail between one's legs / fig. to back down / in a humiliating situation |
| 夹 |
jiā |
to press from either side / to place in between / to sandwich / to carry sth under armpit / wedged between / between / to intersperse / to mix / to mingle / clip / folder / Taiwan pr. [jia2] |
| 夹 |
jiá |
double-layered (quilt); lined (garment) |
| 夹 |
jià |
Taiwan pr. used in 夹生 and 夹竹桃 |
| 夹 |
jiá |
variant of 夹 |
| 起 |
qǐ |
to rise / to raise / to get up / to set out / to start / to appear / to launch / to initiate (action) / to draft / to establish / to get (from a depot or counter) / verb suffix, to start / starting from (a time, place, price etc) / classifier for occurrences or unpredictable events: case, instance / classifier for groups: batch, group |
| 尾 |
wěi |
tail / remainder / remnant / extremity / sixth of the 28 constellations / classifier for fish |
| 尾 |
yǐ |
horse's tail / pointed posterior section of a locust etc |
| 尾巴 |
wěi ba |
tail / colloquial pr. [yi3 ba5] |
| 巴 |
Bā |
Ba, a state during the Zhou dynasty (in present-day Chongqing and the eastern part of Sichuan) / the east of Sichuan and Chongqing Municipality / surname Ba / abbr. for 巴勒斯坦 (Palestine), 巴基斯坦 (Pakistan) or 巴西 (Brazil) |
| 巴 |
bā |
to long for / to wish / to cling to / to stick to / sth that sticks / close to / next to / spread open / informal abbr. for bus 巴士 / bar (unit of pressure) / nominalizing suffix on certain nouns, such as 尾巴, tail |