當
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)
當 character breakdown
still / yet / to value / to esteem
尚
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⺌
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冋
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Mnemonic symbol: 和尚, a buddhist monk.
Sherlock Holmes (sh) assumed his new post inside of the anglepod's bathroom (ang4) at the border control checkpoint (冋). His first client is a buddhist monk (尚) who wants to import some aloe vera (⺌). Sherlock asks him what he thinks how large the value (尚) of his goods is, but the buddhist monk has no idea.
Sherlock Holmes (sh) assumed his new post inside of the anglepod's bathroom (ang4) at the border control checkpoint (冋). His first client is a buddhist monk (尚) who wants to import some aloe vera (⺌). Sherlock asks him what he thinks how large the value (尚) of his goods is, but the buddhist monk has no idea.
Characters with 當 as component
(onom.) dong / ding dong (bell)
official records / grade (of goods) / file / records / shelves / slot / gap / crosspiece / classifier for crosspieces / classifier for events, affairs etc / Taiwan pr. [dang3]
档
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当
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木
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Don Quixote (d) found that he got the new folders he wanted for Christmas, but he also finds the shreds that the angry pitbull (当) made out of them under the Christmas tree (木) in the anglepod's bathroom (ang4). Don Quixote leaps towards the Christmas tree anyway to save (档) what can be saved.
(Tw) variant of 擋|挡[dang3], gear
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
clank / clang / sound of metal
frying pan / griddle
(dialect) earthen dyke in a river or rice paddy (for irrigation purposes)
(literary) pendant ornament / earring / eunuch
crotch / seat of a pair of trousers
see 篔簹|筼筜[yun2 dang1]
old variant of 讜|谠[dang3]
Words with 當
lit. I dare not (accept the honor); fig. I don't deserve your praise / you flatter me
(of one's skills, appearance etc) not to have deteriorated a bit / to be as (good, vigorous etc) as ever
a person who doesn't manage a household would not be aware how expensive it is (idiom)
one man can hold the pass against ten thousand enemies (idiom)
to take sth as a lesson for next time (idiom) / once bitten, twice shy
Sentences with 當
當 currently does not appear in any sentence.