1 to pat

2 to clap

3 to slap

4 to swat

5 to take (a photo)

6 to shoot (a film)

7 racket (sports)

8 beat (music)

1 variant: 岸 àn

1 to take a picture of a person without permission or without their knowledge

1 candid photograph

2 genuine photograph (not set up or doctored)

1 opposite bank (of a body of water)

1 (of marriage or business partners) to break up (idiom)

2 to separate

1 lit. to be together from the first beat (idiom)

2 to hit it off

3 to click together

4 to chime in easily

1 lit. slap the table and shout with praise (idiom); fig. wonderful!

2 amazing!

3 great!

1 lit. to slap the table and stand up (idiom); fig. at the end of one's tether

2 unable to take it any more

1 to slap the table in amazement (idiom); wonderful!

2 amazing!