咬

to bite / to nip

variant of 咬[yao3]

to hand over / to deliver / to pay (money) / to turn over / to make friends / to intersect (lines) / variant of 跤[jiao1]

mouth / classifier for things with mouths (people, domestic animals, cannons, wells etc) / classifier for bites or mouthfuls

to arbitrarily assert / to allege / to stick to one's statement / to cling to one's view

bitten by a snake in one year, fears the well rope for ten years (idiom); once bitten twice shy

once bitten by a snake, ten years in fear of a well rope / once bitten, twice shy (idiom)

lit. Cheng Yaojin ambushes the enemy (saying) / fig. sb shows up unexpectedly and disrupts the plan / sb whose presence is regarded as irksome

see 半路殺出個程咬金|半路杀出个程咬金[ban4 lu4 sha1 chu1 ge4 Cheng2 Yao3 jin1]

to make a false countercharge

sting / bite (of insect)

lit. the dog that bites does not show its fangs (idiom) / fig. You can't tell the really dangerous enemy from his external appearance.

lit. the dog that bites doesn't show its teeth (idiom) / fig. the most sinister of people can look quite harmless

bite (e.g. snake bite, mosquito bite)