1 nine

2 9

1 mouth

2 classifier: 张 zhāng

3 slap in the face

4 classifier: 个 gè

1 tail

2 colloquial pr. [yǐ ba]

1 Ba state during Zhou dynasty (in east of modern Sichuan)

2 abbr. for east Sichuan or Chongqing

3 surname Ba

4 abbr. for Palestine or Palestinian

5 abbr. for Pakistan

1 palm of the hand

2 classifier: slap

1 one word worth nine sacred tripods (idiom); words of enormous weight

1 lit. to have only nine meals in thirty days (idiom)

2 fig. (of a family) on the brink of starvation

3 in dire straits

1 to reach for the stars (idiom)

1 nine deaths and still alive (idiom); a narrow escape

2 new lease of life

1 lit. one hair from nine oxen (idiom)

2 fig. a drop in the ocean