to clutch / to grab / to capture
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Frequency data: Cai & Brysbaert, SUBTLEX-CH (2010), Creative Commons Attribution. The data includes word forms with at least 10 occurrences in an older subtitle sample. It does not provide current frequency or HSK levels. Absence from the sample does not establish that a word is rare. Names, variants and restricted readings identified in the source appear after general-use entries within the same match type.
to tease
to catch / to grapple with / to hold onto
to catch / to seize / to capture
to fathom / to make sense of / to grasp
to arrest / to catch a criminal
to catch a couple in the act (adultery, illicit sexual relations)
(idiom) unpredictable / elusive / hard to pin down
to bring to justice
to capture alive
lit. chasing the wind and clutching at shadows (idiom) / fig. groundless accusations / to act on hearsay evidence
to capture
to pair off (for a confrontation)
humorous pronunciation of 著急|着急[]
to arrest / to seize / to capture
trap (for animals etc)
to capture
lit. pulling on the lapels exposes the elbows (idiom) / strapped for cash / unable to make ends meet
to play hide-and-seek
it doesn't matter whether a cat is white or black / as long as it catches mice it's a good cat (variant of a Sichuanese saying used in a speech by Deng Xiaoping 鄧小平|邓小平[] in 1962, usually associated with his economic reforms starting in 1978, in which pragmatism was favored over ideological purity)
(lit.) to catch a turtle in a jar (idiom) / (fig.) to go after easy prey
lit. a thief crying "Stop the thief!" (idiom) / fig. to accuse sb of a theft and try to sneak away oneself / to cover up one's misdeeds by shifting the blame onto others
lit. to catch sparrows blindfolded (idiom) / fig. to act blindly
to catch a thief by closing his escape route (idiom)
elusive / hard to pin down / enigmatic
Definitions from CC-CEDICT · 125,326 source records · Release 2026-10-27