抽插
chōu chā
Pinyin

Definition

抽插
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chōu chā
  1. to slide in and out
  2. thrusting

Character Decomposition

Related Words (20)

抽
chōu
  1. 1 to draw out
  2. 2 to pull out from in between
  3. 3 to remove part of the whole
  4. 4 (of certain plants) to sprout or bud
  5. 5 to whip or thrash
抽出
chōu chū
  1. 1 to take out
  2. 2 to extract
抽取
chōu qǔ
  1. 1 to extract
  2. 2 to remove
  3. 3 to draw (a sales commission, venom from a snake etc)
抽屉
chōu ti
  1. 1 drawer
抽搐
chōu chù
  1. 1 to twitch
抽烟
chōu yān
  1. 1 to smoke (a cigarette, tobacco)
抽奖
chōu jiǎng
  1. 1 to draw a prize
  2. 2 a lottery
  3. 3 a raffle
抽空
chōu kòng
  1. 1 to find the time to do sth
抽筋
chōu jīn
  1. 1 cramp
  2. 2 charley horse
  3. 3 to pull a tendon
抽风
chōu fēng
  1. 1 to ventilate
  2. 2 to induce a draft
  3. 3 spasm
  4. 4 convulsion
插
chā
  1. 1 to insert
  2. 2 stick in
  3. 3 pierce
  4. 4 to take part in
  5. 5 to interfere
  6. 6 to interpose
插入
chā rù
  1. 1 to insert
  2. 2 to stick
  3. 3 to thrust
插座
chā zuò
  1. 1 socket
  2. 2 outlet
插曲
chā qǔ
  1. 1 music played during a movie, play etc
  2. 2 incidental music
  3. 3 music played in a theatrical interlude
  4. 4 (fig.) incident
  5. 5 episode
插队
chā duì
  1. 1 to cut in line
  2. 2 to jump a queue
  3. 3 to live on a rural community (during the Cultural Revolution)
老抽
lǎo chōu
  1. 1 dark soy sauce
倒插门
dào chā mén
  1. 1 to marry and live with the bride's family (inverting traditional Chinese expectations)
两肋插刀
liǎng lèi chā dāo
  1. 1 lit. knifes piercing both sides (idiom)
  2. 2 fig. to attach a great importance to friendship, up to the point of being able to sacrifice oneself for it
即插即用
jí chā jí yòng
  1. 1 plug-and-play
安插
ān chā
  1. 1 to place in a certain position
  2. 2 to assign to a job
  3. 3 to plant
  4. 4 resettlement (old)

Idioms (8)

两肋插刀
liǎng lèi chā dāo
  1. 1 lit. knifes piercing both sides (idiom)
  2. 2 fig. to attach a great importance to friendship, up to the point of being able to sacrifice oneself for it
抽丝剥茧
chōu sī bāo jiǎn
  1. 1 lit. to spin silk from cocoons
  2. 2 fig. to make a painstaking investigation (idiom)
插科打诨
chā kē dǎ hùn
  1. 1 to include impromptu comic material in opera performance (idiom); to jest
  2. 2 buffoonery
插翅难飞
chā chì nán fēi
  1. 1 lit. even given wings, you couldn't fly (idiom); fig. impossible to escape
无心插柳
wú xīn chā liǔ
  1. 1 (idiom) (of a good outcome) unanticipated
  2. 2 serendipitous
  3. 3 fortuitous
病来如山倒，病去如抽丝
bìng lái rú shān dǎo , bìng qù rú chōu sī
  1. 1 sickness comes like a landslide, but goes slowly like spinning silk (idiom); expect to convalesce slowly
短中抽长
duǎn zhōng chōu cháng
  1. 1 to make the best of a bad job
  2. 2 to make the best use of limited resources (idiom)
见缝插针
jiàn fèng chā zhēn
  1. 1 lit. to see a gap and stick in a needle (idiom); fig. to make use of every second and every inch

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