擋

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)

to arrange / to put in order

"hand" radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 64), occurring in 提, 把, 打 etc

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

at or in the very same... / suitable / adequate / fitting / proper / to replace / to regard as / to think / to pawn / (coll.) to fail (a student)

to obstruct

to resist / to hold back / to stop / to ward off / to withstand

see 勢不可當|势不可当[shi4 bu4 ke3 dang1]

gear (of car etc)

to change gear

backboard

manual gear change / shift stick

gear / gear speed

to put into gear / to engage the gear / gear change

see 放空擋|放空挡[fang4 kong1 dang3]

gear lever

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

neutral (gear)

park (gear) / program mode (on a digital camera)

low gear / bottom gear

reverse 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