打口
dǎ kǒu
Pinyin
Definition
打口
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- (of CDs, videos etc) surplus (or "cut-out") stock from Western countries, sometimes marked with a notch in the disc or its case, sold cheaply in China (beginning in the 1990s), as well as Eastern Europe etc
Character Decomposition
Related Words (20)
- 1 mouth
- 2 classifier for things with mouths (people, domestic animals, cannons, wells etc)
- 3 classifier for bites or mouthfuls
- 1 dozen (loanword)
- 1 to open
- 2 to show (a ticket)
- 3 to turn on
- 4 to switch on
- 1 one breath
- 2 in one breath
- 3 at a stretch
Idioms (20)
一炮打响
- 1 to win instant success (idiom)
- 2 to start off successfully
一网打尽
- 1 lit. to catch everything in the one net (idiom)
- 2 fig. to scoop up the whole lot
- 3 to capture them all in one go
三天不打,上房揭瓦
- 1 three days without a beating, and a child will scale the roof to rip the tiles (idiom)
- 2 spare the rod, spoil the child
三缄其口
- 1 (idiom) reluctant to speak about it
- 2 tight-lipped
不打不成器
- 1 spare the rod and spoil the child (idiom)