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jiā home / family / (polite) my (sister, uncle etc) / classifier for families or businesses / refers to the philosophical schools of pre-Han China / noun suffix for a specialist in some activity, such as a musician or revolutionary, corresponding to English -ist, -er, -ary or -ian / CL:
tái Shān Mt Wutai in Shanxi 山西, one of the Four Sacred Mountains and home of the Bodhimanda of Manjushri 文殊
yíng (of a groom) to fetch one's bride from her parents' home to escort her to the wedding ceremony / (fig.) to take as one's wife; to marry (a woman)
qiè zhòng to hit the target (esp. in argument); to strike home
便 jiā cháng biàn fàn simple home-style meal / common occurrence / nothing out of the ordinary
xiāng qīn fellow countryman (from the same village) / local people / villager / the folks back home
qiè zhòng shí to hit home on the evils of the day (idiom); fig. to hit a current political target / to hit the nub of the matter
chéng shèng zhuī to follow up a victory and press home the attack / to pursue retreating enemy
qiè zhòng yào hài to hit the target and do real damage (idiom) / fig. to hit where it hurts / fig. to hit home / an argument that hits the nail on the head
xiù cai chū mén , quán zhī tiān xià shì a learned person need not leave his home to know what's going on in the world (idiom)
bǎo jiā wèi guó guard home, defend the country (idiom); national defense
dāng guān wèi mín zuò zhǔ huí jiā mài hóng shǔ if an official does not put the people first, he might as well go home and sell sweet potatoes
dào (Tw) to provide a service at the customer's home; to make a house call
hǎi wéi jiā to regard the four corners of the world all as home (idiom) / to feel at home anywhere / to roam about unconstrained / to consider the entire country, or world, to be one's own
dān fāng unilateral / one-sided / home remedy / folk prescription(same as 丹方) / single-drug prescription (same as 奇方, one of the seven kinds of prescriptions of Chinese medicine 七方) / metaphorically. a good solution
chī to plunder the homes of the wealthy for food (in times of famine) / (of sb who has no income) to rely on others / to demand a "contribution" or "loan" from a business or wealthy individual
chī bu liǎo dōu zhe zǒu lit. if you can't eat it all, you'll have to take it home (idiom) / fig. you'll have to take the consequences
lín mén lit. (may the) five blessings descend upon this home (namely: longevity, wealth, health, virtue, and a natural death) / (an auspicious saying for the Lunar New Year)
退 lín yuān xiàn , tuì ér jié wǎng better to go home and weave a net than to stand by the pond longing for fish (idiom) / one should take practical steps to achieve one's aim
wéi Wèi jiù Zhào lit. to besiege and rescue (idiom) / fig. to relieve a besieged ally by attacking the home base of the besiegers


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