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Trad. 牆
- wall (CL:面[mian4],堵[du3])
- (slang) to block (a website) (usu. in the passive: 被牆|被墙[bei4 qiang2])
Trad. 翻牆
- lit. to climb over the wall
- fig. to breach the Great Firewall of China
Trad. 蕭牆
- (literary) screen wall shielding an entrance in traditional Chinese architecture
Trad. 挖牆腳
- to undermine
- to let someone down
- to seduce someone away from something
Trad. 民主牆
- Democracy Wall, Beijing (1978-1979), and bulletin boards inspired by it, in some Hong Kong universities
Trad. 牆頭草
- sb who goes whichever way the wind blows
- sb with no mind of their own
- easily swayed person
- opportunist
Trad. 佛跳牆
- lit. Buddha jumps over the wall, name for a Chinese dish that uses many non-vegetarian ingredients
Trad. 聽牆根
- to eavesdrop
- to listen in secret to sb's conversations
Trad. 第四堵牆
- the fourth wall (in theater, TV, film etc)
Trad. 第四面牆
- the fourth wall (in theater, TV, film etc)
Trad. 引水入牆
- lit. to lead the water through the wall
- to ask for trouble (idiom)
Trad. 兄弟鬩牆
- internecine strife (idiom); fighting among oneself
Trad. 紅杏出牆
- lit. the red apricot tree leans over the garden wall (idiom)
- fig. a wife having an illicit lover
Trad. 銅牆鐵壁
- copper wall, iron bastion (idiom); impenetrable defense
Trad. 狗急跳牆
- a cornered dog will jump over the wall (idiom)
- to be driven to desperate action
Trad. 石膏牆板
- drywall
- gypsum wallboard
- plasterboard
Trad. 聽牆根兒
- erhua variant of 聽牆根|听墙根[ting1 qiang2 gen1]
Trad. 牆倒眾人推
- lit. when a wall is about to collapse, everybody gives it a shove (idiom)
- fig. everybody hits a man who is down
Trad. 爛泥扶不上牆
- useless (idiom)
- worthless
- inept
Trad. 爛泥糊不上牆
- see 爛泥扶不上牆|烂泥扶不上墙[lan4 ni2 fu2 bu4 shang4 qiang2]
Trad. 拆東牆補西牆
- lit. to tear down the east wall to repair the west wall (saying)
- fig. to rob Peter to pay Paul
Trad. 沒有不透風的牆
- (idiom) no secret can be kept forever
Trad. 不撞南牆不回頭
- to stubbornly insist on one's own ideas (idiom)
Trad. 兄弟鬩於墻，外禦其侮
- internal disunity dissolves at the threat of an invasion from outside (idiom)