1 to stop

2 to halt

3 to park (a car)

1 café

2 coffee shop

1 nightclub

1 inn

2 shop

3 store

4 classifier: 家 jiā

1 variant: 老板 lǎo bǎn

1 lit. one strong beat and one weak beats in a measure of music (two beats in the bar) (idiom); fig. follow a prescribed pattern to the letter

2 scrupulous attention to detail

1 lit. one strong beat and three weak beats in a measure of music (four beats in the bar) (idiom); fig. scrupulous attention to detail

1 stuck and not moving forward (idiom); stagnant

2 in a rut

3 at a standstill

1 lit. no village ahead and no inn behind (idiom)

2 fig. to be stranded in the middle of nowhere

3 to be in a predicament

1 every village and stockade (idiom)