1 to vote

2 vote

1 ticket

2 ballot

3 banknote

4 classifier: 张 zhāng

5 person held for ransom

6 amateur performance of Chinese opera

7 classifier for groups, batches, business transactions

1 source (of information etc)

2 origin

1 to originate in

1 ticket seller

1 lit. to strike water right and left (idiom)

2 fig. to turn everything into gold

3 to have everything going one's way

4 to benefit from both sides

1 a steady flow (idiom); an unending stream

1 lit. source is distant and the flow is long (idiom); fig. sth goes back to the dim and distant past

2 a lot of water has flowed under the bridge since then

1 to trace something to its source (idiom)

1 lit. food and medicine come from the same source (idiom)

2 fig. there is no clear-cut distinction between food and medicine