1 (onom.) quack

2 honk

3 (northern dialect) very

4 also pr. [gā ga], [gá ga] etc

1 mouth

2 classifier: 张 zhāng

3 slap in the face

4 classifier: 个 gè

1 tail

2 colloquial pr. [yǐ ba]

1 Ba state during Zhou dynasty (in east of modern Sichuan)

2 abbr. for east Sichuan or Chongqing

3 surname Ba

4 abbr. for Palestine or Palestinian

5 abbr. for Pakistan

1 palm of the hand

2 classifier: slap

1 lit. lay down the flag and still the drums (idiom); fig. to cease

2 to give in

1 lit. to fly one's banner on a solitary tree (idiom); fig. to act as a loner

2 to stand out

3 to develop one's own school

4 to have attitude of one's own

1 General Lü Meng 呂蒙|吕蒙 of the southern state of Wu (idiom); model of self-improvement by diligent study (from unlettered soldier to top strategist of Wu)

1 no choice but to suffer in silence (idiom)

2 also written 啞巴吃黃連|哑巴吃黄连

3 (often precedes 有苦說不出|有苦说不出[yǒu kǔ shuō bu chū])

1 no choice but to suffer in silence (idiom)

2 also written 啞巴吃黃蓮|哑巴吃黄莲

3 (often precedes 有苦說不出|有苦说不出[yǒu kǔ shuō bu chū])