| 打哪儿指哪儿 |
dǎ nǎr zhǐ nǎr |
(coll.) to act first and then claim the outcome was intended; to act without a clear aim and justify it afterward (ironic reversal of 指哪儿打哪儿, where one aims clearly and executes with precision) |
| 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 |
| 哪 |
nǎ |
how / which |
| 哪 |
na |
(emphatic sentence-final particle, used instead of 啊 after a word ending in "n") |
| 哪 |
né |
used in 哪吒 / Taiwan pr. [nuo2] |
| 哪 |
něi |
which? (interrogative, followed by classifier or numeral-classifier) |
| 哪儿 |
nǎr |
where? / wherever; anywhere; somewhere / (used in rhetorical questions) how can ...?; how could ...? |
| 儿 |
ér |
child / son |
| 儿 |
r |
non-syllabic diminutive suffix / retroflex final |
| 指 |
zhǐ |
finger / to point at or to / to indicate or refer to / to depend on / to count on / (of hair) to stand on end |
| 哪 |
nǎ |
how / which |
| 哪 |
na |
(emphatic sentence-final particle, used instead of 啊 after a word ending in "n") |
| 哪 |
né |
used in 哪吒 / Taiwan pr. [nuo2] |
| 哪 |
něi |
which? (interrogative, followed by classifier or numeral-classifier) |
| 哪儿 |
nǎr |
where? / wherever; anywhere; somewhere / (used in rhetorical questions) how can ...?; how could ...? |
| 儿 |
ér |
child / son |
| 儿 |
r |
non-syllabic diminutive suffix / retroflex final |