抽搭
chōu dā
Pinyin
Definition
抽搭
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- to sob
- to cry
Character Decomposition
Related Words (20)
- 1 to draw out
- 2 to pull out from in between
- 3 to remove part of the whole
- 4 (of certain plants) to sprout or bud
- 5 to whip or thrash
- 1 to pair up
- 2 to match
- 3 to arrange in pairs
- 4 to add sth into a group
- 1 to gang up
- 2 to fool around with
- 3 to make up to
- 1 to take out
- 2 to extract
- 1 to extract
- 2 to remove
- 3 to draw (a sales commission, venom from a snake etc)
Idioms (5)
勾肩搭背
- 1 arms around each other's shoulders (idiom)
千里搭长棚,没有不散的宴席
- 1 even if you build a thousand-league awning for it, every banquet must come to an end (idiom)
抽丝剥茧
- 1 lit. to spin silk from cocoons
- 2 fig. to make a painstaking investigation (idiom)
病来如山倒,病去如抽丝
- 1 sickness comes like a landslide, but goes slowly like spinning silk (idiom); expect to convalesce slowly
短中抽长
- 1 to make the best of a bad job
- 2 to make the best use of limited resources (idiom)