to resist / to obstruct / to hinder / to keep off / to block (a blow) / to get in the way of / cover / gear (e.g. in a car's transmission)

= + : An angry pitbull (当) attacks Don Quixote (d) in the anglepod (ang3), but Don Quixote resists (挡) with a toy claw (扌). The pitbull bites into the toy claw fiercely, but the toy claw is able to resist (挡) his bite.
to arrange / to put in order
variant of 擋|挡[dang3]

= + : An angry pitbull (当) attacks Don Quixote (d) in the anglepod (ang3), but Don Quixote resists (挡) with a toy claw (扌). The pitbull bites into the toy claw fiercely, but the toy claw is able to resist (挡) his bite.

挡 character breakdown

(onom.) dong / ding dong (bell)

= + : This character looks like an angry pitbull. 小 forms the eyes and maybe nose, and 彐 are the dangerous teeth.

= + : Don Quixote opposes a dangerous pit bull in front of the anglepod, and he tries to calm him down with a daisy.
"hand" radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 64), occurring in 提, 把, 打 etc

= + : Mnemonic symbol: a toy claw.
to be / to act as / manage / withstand / when / during / ought / should / match equally / equal / same / obstruct / just at (a time or place) / on the spot / right / just at

= + : This character looks like an angry pitbull. 小 forms the eyes and maybe nose, and 彐 are the dangerous teeth.

= + : Don Quixote opposes a dangerous pit bull in front of the anglepod, and he tries to calm him down with a daisy.
at or in the very same... / suitable / adequate / fitting / proper / to replace / to regard as / to think / to pawn / (coll.) to fail (a student)

Characters with 挡 as component

挡 is not used as a component in another character.

Words with 挡

see 勢不可當|势不可当[shi4 bu4 ke3 dang1]
gear (of car etc)
low gear / bottom gear
counter soldiers with arms, water with an earth weir (idiom); different situations call for different action / to adopt measures appropriate to the actual situation
manual gear change / shift stick
to put into gear / to engage the gear / gear change
see 放空擋|放空挡[fang4 kong1 dang3]
variant of 搭檔|搭档[da1 dang4]
to put in order / to arrange (literary) / cuisine
(in a manual car) gear (i.e. reverse, neutral, 1st, 2nd etc) / (automatic car) transmission mode (P, R, N, D etc) / (electric fan etc) speed setting
pick and roll (basketball) / screen and roll
(slang) to ask for money / to lend money
(slang) to ask for money / to lend money
(slang) to ask for money / to lend money
neutral (gear)
park (gear) / program mode (on a digital camera)

Sentences with 挡

挡 currently does not appear in any sentence.