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 duì miàn (sitting) opposite / across (the street) / directly in front / to be face to face
 héng horizontal / across / crosswise / horizontal stroke (in Chinese characters) / to place (sth) flat (on a surface) / to cross (a river, etc) / in a jumble / chaotic / (in fixed expressions) harsh and unreasonable / violent
 duì guò across / opposite / the other side
 yù dào to meet / to run into / to come across
 pèng dào to come across / to run into / to meet / to hit
 mǎn liǎn across one's whole face
 yù shàng to come across (sb) / to run into
 xiāng yù to meet / to encounter / to come across
 kuà yuè to step across / step over
 mǎn miàn across one's whole face / (smiling) from ear to ear
 lu:è guò to flit across / to sweep past / to glance (strike at an angle)
 xiāng féng to meet (by chance) / to come across
 huá guò (of a meteor etc) to streak across (the sky) / (of a searchlight, lightning etc) to play across (the sky)
 héng sǎo to sweep away / to sweep across
 huá pò to cut open / to rip / to streak across (lightning, meteor etc) / to pierce (scream, searchlight etc)
 fēi yuè to fly across / to fly over / to fly past / (literary) (of one's spirits) to soar
 Huí zú Hui Islamic ethnic group living across China
 tǒng kǎo unified examination (e.g. across the country)
 héng kuà to span / to stretch across / to travel across
 tiān mǎ xíng kōng like a heavenly steed, soaring across the skies (idiom) / (of writing, calligraphy etc) bold and imaginative / unconstrained in style
 héng fēi to splash across / to splatter
 lán yāo (hitting) squarely in the middle / (slicing) across the middle / to hold by the waist
 tōu dù illegal immigration / to stowaway (on a ship) / to steal across the international border / to run a blockade
 héng guàn horizontal traverse / to cut across / to cross transversally
 què qiáo magpie bridge across the Milky Way between Altair and Vega where Cowherd and Weaving maid 牛郎織女|牛郎织女 / are allowed an annual meeting
 kě yù bù kě qiú can be discovered but not sought (idiom) / one can only come across such things serendipitously
 xiào zhú yán kāi smile spread across the face (idiom) / beaming with pleasure / all smiles / joy written across one's face
 Wāng Dào hán Wang Daohan (1915-2005), former president of the Association for Relations Across the Taiwan Straits
 kuà hǎi dà qiáo bay bridge (elevated bridge across stretch of water)
 héng duàn to cross (a road, an ocean etc) / to cut across
 zhào bì a screen wall across the gate of a house (for privacy)
 Hè lán Shān Helan Mountains, lying across part of the border between Ningxia and Inner Mongolia
 mǎn táng hóng success across the board / victory in everything one touches
 yī mǎ píng chuān flat land one could gallop straight across (idiom) / wide expanse of flat country
 zòng héng chí chěng to criss-cross / to run unhindered across the whole country
 héng qiē to cut across / a horizontal cut
 wò guǐ to lie across the railway tracks (to commit suicide or to prevent trains from getting through)
 qiú dù to swim across
 nù xíng yú sè to betray anger (idiom) / fury written across one's face
 lán hé bà a dam across a river
 shè (literary) to wade across a body of water / (bound form) to experience / to undergo / to be involved / to concern
 kuà to step across / to stride over / to straddle / to span
 chuàn to string together / to skewer / to connect wrongly / to gang up / to rove / string / bunch / skewer / classifier for things that are strung together, or in a bunch, or in a row: string of, bunch of, series of / to make a swift or abrupt linear movement (like a bead on an abacus) / to move across
 féng to meet by chance / to come across / (of a calendar event) to come along / (of an event) to fall on (a particular day) / to fawn upon
 bá postscript / to trek across mountains
 gèn extending all the way across / running all the way through
 wěn cut across (throat)
 liè step across
 gé àn guān huǒ to watch the fires burning across the river / to delay entering the fray until all others have been exhausted by fighting amongst themselves (idiom)
 gāng bamboos placed across wooden frames on which grain may be stored in damp climates
 bào hǔ píng hé lit. fight tigers with one's bare hands and wade across raging rivers (idiom) / fig. to display foolhardy courage
 kuáng sān zhà sì to deceive and swindle across the board (idiom)
 zhuǎn zhàn qiān lǐ fighting everywhere over a thousand miles (idiom) / constant fighting across the country / never-ending struggle
 yuǎn dù chóng yáng to travel across the oceans
 tōng pán across the board / comprehensive / overall / global
 Hǎi xiá Liǎng àn Guān xi Xié huì PRC Association for Relations Across the Taiwan Straits (ARATS)
 Hǎi Xié huì Association for Relations Across the Taiwan Straits (ARATS) / abbr. for 海峽兩岸關係協會|海峡两岸关系协会[Hai3 xia2 Liang3 an4 Guan1 xi5 Xie2 hui4]
 yǔ percussion instrument shaped as a hollow wooden tiger, with serrated strip across the back, across which one runs a drumstick
 héng jié to cut across / cross-sectional / transverse
 wú see 逢俉[feng2 wu2], to come across sth scary / to have a fright
 Huí zú rén Hui person / member of Hui ethnic group living across China
 mí fēng to sign across the seal (as a precaution against fraud)
 nù róng mǎn miàn scowling in anger / rage written across one's face
 liǔ tiáo biān Willow palisade across Liaoning, 17th century barrier
 zōng bēng rectangular frame with a palm fiber mat woven across it (placed on a bed frame as the sleeping surface)
 zhàn jìng a plank road (built on trestles across the face of a cliff)
 héng chén to lie in disarray / to cut across / to traverse
 shè dù to ford (a stream) / to wade across
 mǎn shì jiè everywhere / across the world
 Yān shān Yan mountain range across north Hebei
 Guā dá lā mǎ Sierra de Guadarrama (mountain range across Iberia, passing north of Madrid)
 Guā dá lā mǎ shān Sierra de Guadarrama (mountain range across Iberia, passing north of Madrid)
 Hè lán Shān mài Helan Mountains, lying across part of the border between Ningxia and Inner Mongolia
 féng wú to come across sth scary / to have a fright
 Chén Yún lín Chen Yunlin (1941-), chairman of PRC Association for Relations Across the Taiwan Straits (ARATS) 海峽兩岸關係協會|海峡两岸关系协会[Hai3 xia2 Liang3 an4 Guan1 xi5 Xie2 hui4] (2008-2013)
 tuó kuāng pannier / double basket slung across pack animal
 tuó lǒu pannier / double basket slung across pack animal
 mō zhe shí tou guò hé to wade across the river, feeling for footholds as one goes (idiom) / to advance cautiously, step by step / to feel one's way forward
 rén dào zhǔ yì wú guó jiè humanitarianism across borders / humanitarianism without borders
"家"国  International Conference on Families Across Frontiers
 Yī dài Yī lù Belt and Road Initiative, Chinese government plan to provide finance and engineering expertise to build infrastructure across Eurasia and northeast Africa, unveiled in 2013
 gōng zhǔ bào to carry sb the way grooms carry brides across the threshold
 lóu (dialect) an opening at the bottom of a dike for letting water in or out / small channel across a river embankment / (used in place names) / Taiwan pr. [dou1]
 mǎ zhá campstool / folding stool (with fabric stretched across the top to sit on)
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