对 面 duì miàn (sitting) opposite / across (the street) / directly in front / to be face to face 横 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 对 过 duì guò across / opposite / the other side 遇 到 yù dào to meet / to run into / to come across 碰 到 pèng dào to come across / to run into / to meet / to hit 满 脸 mǎn liǎn across one's whole face 遇 上 yù shàng to come across (sb) / to run into 相 遇 xiāng yù to meet / to encounter / to come across 跨 越 kuà yuè to step across / step over 满 面 mǎn miàn across one's whole face / (smiling) from ear to ear 掠 过 lu:è guò to flit across / to sweep past / to glance (strike at an angle) 相 逢 xiāng féng to meet (by chance) / to come across 划 过 huá guò (of a meteor etc) to streak across (the sky) / (of a searchlight, lightning etc) to play across (the sky) 横 扫 héng sǎo to sweep away / to sweep across 划 破 huá pò to cut open / to rip / to streak across (lightning, meteor etc) / to pierce (scream, searchlight etc) 飞 越 fēi yuè to fly across / to fly over / to fly past / (literary) (of one's spirits) to soar 回 族 Huí zú Hui Islamic ethnic group living across China 统 考 tǒng kǎo unified examination (e.g. across the country) 横 跨 héng kuà to span / to stretch across / to travel across 天 马 行 空 tiān mǎ xíng kōng like a heavenly steed, soaring across the skies (idiom) / (of writing, calligraphy etc) bold and imaginative / unconstrained in style 横 飞 héng fēi to splash across / to splatter 拦 腰 lán yāo (hitting) squarely in the middle / (slicing) across the middle / to hold by the waist 偷 渡 tōu dù illegal immigration / to stowaway (on a ship) / to steal across the international border / to run a blockade 横 贯 héng guàn horizontal traverse / to cut across / to cross transversally 鹊 桥 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 可 遇 不 可 求 kě yù bù kě qiú can be discovered but not sought (idiom) / one can only come across such things serendipitously 笑 逐 颜 开 xiào zhú yán kāi smile spread across the face (idiom) / beaming with pleasure / all smiles / joy written across one's face 汪 道 涵 Wāng Dào hán Wang Daohan (1915-2005), former president of the Association for Relations Across the Taiwan Straits 跨 海 大 桥 kuà hǎi dà qiáo bay bridge (elevated bridge across stretch of water) 横 断 héng duàn to cross (a road, an ocean etc) / to cut across 照 壁 zhào bì a screen wall across the gate of a house (for privacy) 贺 兰 山 Hè lán Shān Helan Mountains, lying across part of the border between Ningxia and Inner Mongolia 满 堂 红 mǎn táng hóng success across the board / victory in everything one touches 一 马 平 川 yī mǎ píng chuān flat land one could gallop straight across (idiom) / wide expanse of flat country 纵 横 驰 骋 zòng héng chí chěng to criss-cross / to run unhindered across the whole country 横 切 héng qiē to cut across / a horizontal cut 卧 轨 wò guǐ to lie across the railway tracks (to commit suicide or to prevent trains from getting through) 泅 渡 qiú dù to swim across 怒 形 于 色 nù xíng yú sè to betray anger (idiom) / fury written across one's face 拦 河 坝 lán hé bà a dam across a river 涉 shè (literary) to wade across a body of water / (bound form) to experience / to undergo / to be involved / to concern 跨 kuà to step across / to stride over / to straddle / to span 串 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 逢 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 跋 bá postscript / to trek across mountains 亘 gèn extending all the way across / running all the way through 刎 wěn cut across (throat) 躐 liè step across 隔 岸 观 火 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) 笐 gāng bamboos placed across wooden frames on which grain may be stored in damp climates 暴 虎 冯 河 bào hǔ píng hé lit. fight tigers with one's bare hands and wade across raging rivers (idiom) / fig. to display foolhardy courage 狂 三 诈 四 kuáng sān zhà sì to deceive and swindle across the board (idiom) 转 战 千 里 zhuǎn zhàn qiān lǐ fighting everywhere over a thousand miles (idiom) / constant fighting across the country / never-ending struggle 远 渡 重 洋 yuǎn dù chóng yáng to travel across the oceans 通 盘 tōng pán across the board / comprehensive / overall / global 海 峡 两 岸 关 系 协 会 Hǎi xiá Liǎng àn Guān xi Xié huì PRC Association for Relations Across the Taiwan Straits (ARATS) 海 协 会 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] 敔 yǔ percussion instrument shaped as a hollow wooden tiger, with serrated strip across the back, across which one runs a drumstick 横 截 héng jié to cut across / cross-sectional / transverse 俉 wú see 逢俉[feng2 wu2], to come across sth scary / to have a fright 回 族 人 Huí zú rén Hui person / member of Hui ethnic group living across China 弥 封 mí fēng to sign across the seal (as a precaution against fraud) 怒 容 满 面 nù róng mǎn miàn scowling in anger / rage written across one's face 柳 条 边 liǔ tiáo biān Willow palisade across Liaoning, 17th century barrier 棕 绷 zōng bēng rectangular frame with a palm fiber mat woven across it (placed on a bed frame as the sleeping surface) 栈 径 zhàn jìng a plank road (built on trestles across the face of a cliff) 横 陈 héng chén to lie in disarray / to cut across / to traverse 涉 渡 shè dù to ford (a stream) / to wade across 满 世 界 mǎn shì jiè everywhere / across the world 燕 山 Yān shān Yan mountain range across north Hebei 瓜 达 拉 马 Guā dá lā mǎ Sierra de Guadarrama (mountain range across Iberia, passing north of Madrid) 瓜 达 拉 马 山 Guā dá lā mǎ shān Sierra de Guadarrama (mountain range across Iberia, passing north of Madrid) 贺 兰 山 脉 Hè lán Shān mài Helan Mountains, lying across part of the border between Ningxia and Inner Mongolia 逢 俉 féng wú to come across sth scary / to have a fright 陈 云 林 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) 驮 筐 tuó kuāng pannier / double basket slung across pack animal 驮 篓 tuó lǒu pannier / double basket slung across pack animal 摸 着 石 头 过 河 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 人 道 主 义 无 国 界 rén dào zhǔ yì wú guó jiè humanitarianism across borders / humanitarianism without borders "家 庭 跨 越 国 界 "国 际 会 议 International Conference on Families Across Frontiers 一 带 一 路 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 公 主 抱 gōng zhǔ bào to carry sb the way grooms carry brides across the threshold 剅 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] 马 扎 mǎ zhá campstool / folding stool (with fabric stretched across the top to sit on)