| 白跑一趟 |
bái pǎo yī tàng |
to go on an errand for nothing / to go on a wild-goose chase |
| 白 |
Bái |
surname Bai |
| 白 |
bái |
white / snowy / pure / bright / empty / blank / plain / clear / to make clear / in vain / gratuitous / free of charge / reactionary / anti-communist / funeral / to stare coldly / to write wrong character / to state / to explain / vernacular / spoken lines in opera |
| 跑 |
páo |
(of an animal) to paw (the ground) |
| 跑 |
pǎo |
to run / to run away / to escape / to run around (on errands etc) / (of a gas or liquid) to leak or evaporate / (verb complement) away / off |
| 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 |
| 趟 |
tāng |
old variant of 趟 |
| 趟 |
tāng |
to wade / to trample / to turn the soil |
| 趟 |
tàng |
classifier for times, round trips or rows / a time / a trip |