打 家 劫 舍

dǎ jiā jié shèdictionary entry

to break into a house for robbery (idiom)

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Original source entry:

打家劫舍打家劫舍 [da3 jia1 jie2 she4] /to break into a house for robbery (idiom)/

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Character information

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打
dá
(loanword) dozen / Taiwan pr. [dǎ]
dǎ
to hit / to strike / to fight / (in many expressions) a semantically light transitive verb used with various objects to form expressions with a wide range of meanings, e.g. 打傘|打伞[dǎ sǎn] "to hold an umbrella", 打電話|打电话[dǎ diàn huà] "to make a phone call", 打針|打针[dǎ zhēn] "to get an injection" / (coll.) from / since
家
jiā
used in 傢伙|家伙[jiā huo] and 傢俱|家俱[jiā jù] / home / family / (polite) my (sister, uncle etc) / classifier for families or businesses / refers to the philosophical schools of pre-Han China / noun suffix for a specialist in some activity, such as a musician or revolutionary, corresponding to English -ist, -er, -ary or -ian / CL:個|个[gè]
劫
jié
to rob / to plunder / to seize by force / to coerce / calamity / abbr. for kalpa 劫波[jié bō]
舍
shě
to give up / to abandon / to give alms
shè
(bound form) residence / house / (bound form) my (in speaking of relatives younger than oneself, as in 舍妹[shè mèi]) / (archaic) unit of distance equal to 30 li 里[lǐ]
Shè
surname She

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