| 首尾相接 |
shǒu wěi xiāng jiē |
to join head to tail / bumper-to-bumper (of traffic jam) |
| 首 |
shǒu |
head / chief / first (occasion, thing etc) / classifier for poems, songs etc |
| 首尾 |
shǒu wěi |
head and tail |
| 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 |
| 相 |
Xiāng |
surname Xiang |
| 相 |
xiāng |
each other / one another / mutually / fret on the neck of a pipa 琵琶 (a fret on the soundboard is called a 品) |
| 相 |
xiàng |
appearance / portrait / picture / government minister / (physics) phase / (literary) to appraise (esp. by scrutinizing physical features) / to read sb's fortune (by physiognomy, palmistry etc) |
| 相接 |
xiāng jiē |
to merge with / interlinking / to join with / to interlock |
| 接 |
jiē |
to receive / to answer (the phone) / to meet or welcome sb / to connect / to catch / to join / to extend / to take one's turn on duty / to take over for sb |