打拍子
dǎ pāi zi
Pinyin
Definition
打拍子
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- to beat time
Character Decomposition
Related Words (20)
- 1 son
- 1 woman
- 2 female
- 1 wife and children
- 1 son
- 2 child
- 3 seed
- 4 egg
- 5 small thing
- 6 1st earthly branch: 11 p.m.-1 a.m., midnight, 11th solar month (7th December to 5th January), year of the Rat
- 7 Viscount, fourth of five orders of nobility 五等爵位[wǔ děng jué wèi]
- 8 ancient Chinese compass point: 0° (north)
- 1 child
Idioms (20)
一拍两散
- 1 (of marriage or business partners) to break up (idiom)
- 2 to separate
一拍即合
- 1 lit. to be together from the first beat (idiom)
- 2 to hit it off
- 3 to click together
- 4 to chime in easily
一炮打响
- 1 to win instant success (idiom)
- 2 to start off successfully
一瓶子不响,半瓶子晃荡
- 1 lit. a full bottle makes no sound; a half-filled bottle sloshes (idiom)
- 2 fig. empty vessels make the most noise
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