关门打狗

关
關
门
門
打
打
狗
狗
lit. shut the door and beat the dog (idiom) / fig. seal off the enemy's avenue of retreat, then strike hard

Characters and words in 关门打狗

关
關
gua̅n = gu + an1
mountain pass / to close; to shut; to turn off / to confine; to lock (sb) up; to shut (sb in a room, a bird in a cage etc) / to concern; to involve
关 = 丷 + 天 : A mean crocodile (丷) is chasing Gitta Giraffe (gu) in front of the anthill (an1). It almost caught up, when an angel (天) appears and pushes its off button (mnemonic symbol for 关) to save Gitta Giraffe.
关
關
门
門
to close a door / to lock a door / (of a shop etc) to close (for the night, or permanently)
门
門
mén = m + (e)n2
surname Men
门
門
mén = m + (e)n2
gate / door / CL:扇[shan4] / gateway / doorway / CL:個|个[ge4] / opening / valve / switch / way to do something / knack / family / house / (religious) sect / school (of thought) / class / category / phylum or division (taxonomy) / classifier for large guns / classifier for lessons, subjects, branches of technology / (suffix) -gate (i.e. scandal; derived from Watergate)
Mahatma Gandhi wants his revenge on the Chinese emperor! Like a spider he sits in the upper left corner of the encampment's kitchen, ready to strike with the trap door he installed in the floor.
打
dá = d + a2
dozen (loanword)
打
dǎ = d + a3
to beat / to strike / to hit / to break / to type / to mix up / to build / to fight / to fetch / to make / to tie up / to issue / to shoot / to calculate / to play (a game) / since / from
打 = 丁 + 扌 : Don Quixote (d) got lost in the ashram (a3) and is afraid of being beaten (打). He equips himself with a claw (扌) for the left hand and a nail (丁) for the right hand, ready to beat (打) anyone approaching him.
打
狗
Takow, Takao or Takau, old name for Kaohsiung 高雄[Gao1 xiong2] in the southwest of Taiwan
狗
gǒu = g + ou3
dog / CL:隻|只[zhi1],條|条[tiao2]
狗 = 句 + 犭 : This dog I will represent by a Great Dane (German: "Dogge", very similar to "dog").

Guy Fawkes (g) and the Grammar Nazi (句) are being walked by their dogs, a Dachshund (犭) and a Great Dane (狗), in the outhouse (ou3). Guy Fawkes and the Grammar Nazi are very interested in each other and spend a lot of time sniffing each other's butts.

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