| 聊备一格 |
liáo bèi yī gé |
to use as a stopgap; to make a perfunctory gesture; token; nominal |
| 聊 |
liáo |
(coll.) to chat / (literary) temporarily; for a while / (literary) somewhat; slightly / (literary) to depend upon |
| 聊备 |
liáo bèi |
to provide on a makeshift basis; to use temporarily as |
| 备 |
bèi |
variant of 备 |
| 备 |
bèi |
(bound form) to prepare; to equip / (literary) fully; completely |
| 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 |
| 格 |
gē |
used in 格登 / used in 格格 |
| 格 |
gé |
square; lattice; grid; frame / compartment; partition; slot (within a larger unit) / (bound form) standard; norm; specification / (bound form) character; disposition; moral quality; style; aesthetic tone / (bound form) rhetorical form; stylistic pattern / (bound form) (linguistics) grammatical case / (literary) to correct; to rectify / (literary) to arrive at; to reach / (literary) to obstruct; to hinder / (literary) to investigate exhaustively / classifier for compartments, slots or cells within a larger unit |