| 打一巴掌，给个甜枣 |
dǎ yī bā zhang , gěi gè tián zǎo |
lit. to give sb a slap, then offer a sweet date (idiom) / fig. to deal harshly with sb, then offer sth by way of consolation |
| 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") |
| 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 |
| 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 / (bound form) 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 |
| 巴掌 |
bā zhang |
palm of the hand / classifier: slap |
| 掌 |
zhǎng |
palm of the hand / sole of the foot / paw / horseshoe / to slap / to hold in one's hand / to wield |
| 给 |
gěi |
to / for / for the benefit of / to give / to allow / to do sth (for sb) / (grammatical equivalent of 被) / (grammatical equivalent of 把) / (sentence intensifier) |
| 给 |
jǐ |
to supply / to provide |
| 个 |
gě |
used in 自个儿 |
| 个 |
gè |
(classifier used before a noun that has no specific classifier) / (bound form) individual |
| 个 |
gè |
variant of 个 |
| 甜 |
tián |
sweet |
| 枣 |
zǎo |
(bound form) jujube; Chinese date (Zizyphus jujuba) |