天

day / sky / heaven

one / single / a (article) / as soon as / entire; whole; all; throughout / "one" radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 1) / also pr. [yao1] for greater clarity when spelling out numbers digit by digit

see 大夫[dai4 fu5]

big; large; great / older (than another person) / eldest (as in 大姐[da4 jie3]) / greatly; freely; fully / (dialect) father / (dialect) uncle (father's brother)

all day long; the whole day

all day long / the whole day

in a day or two / soon

see 一命嗚呼|一命呜呼[yi1 ming4 wu1 hu1]

to change from day to day

lit. to support the sky as a single pillar (idiom) / fig. to take a crucial responsibility upon one's shoulders

lit. when a man achieves the Dao, his poultry and dogs rise to Heaven (idiom) / fig. to ride on sb else's success / Once one man gets a government position, all his cronies get in too / Once sb has cracked the problem, every Tom, Dick and Harry can do it

lit. to hide the sky with one hand / to hide the truth from the masses

new emperor, new officials (idiom) / a new chief brings in new aides

to live miles apart (idiom)