遇到 yù dào to meet / to run into / to come across syn 碰到 pèng dào to come across / to run into / to meet / to hit syn 打扫 打掃 dǎ sǎo to clean / to sweep syn 对面 對面 duì miàn (sitting) opposite / across (the street) / directly in front / to be face to face syn 相遇 xiāng yù to meet / to encounter / to come across syn 扫地 掃地 sǎo dì to sweep the floor / (fig.) (of one's reputation etc) to reach rock bottom / to be at an all-time low syn 全场 全場 quán chǎng everyone present / the whole audience / across-the-board / unanimously / whole duration (of a competition or match) 飞越 飛越 fēi yuè to fly across / to fly over / to fly past / (literary) (of one's spirits) to soar 跨越 kuà yuè to step across / step over syn 铲除 剷除 chǎn chú to root out / to eradicate / to sweep away / to abolish syn 清扫 清掃 qīng sǎo to tidy up / to mop up / a sweep (against crime) syn 席卷 席捲 xí juǎn to engulf / to sweep / to carry away everything syn 偷渡 tōu dù illegal immigration / to stowaway (on a ship) / to steal across the international border / to run a blockade 划破 劃破 huá pò to cut open / to rip / to streak across (lightning, meteor etc) / to pierce (scream, searchlight etc) 横跨 橫跨 héng kuà to span / to stretch across / to travel across syn 遇上 yù shàng to come across (sb) / to run into syn 掠过 掠過 lüè guò to flit across / to sweep past / to glance (strike at an angle) 相逢 xiāng féng to meet (by chance) / to come across syn 所向披靡 suǒ xiàng pī mǐ (idiom) to sweep everything before one / to be invincible syn 满脸 滿臉 mǎn liǎn across one's whole face syn 天马行空 天馬行空 tiān mǎ xíng kōng like a heavenly steed, soaring across the skies (idiom) / (of writing, calligraphy etc) bold and imaginative / unconstrained in style syn 扫墓 掃墓 sǎo mù to sweep a grave (and pay one's respects to the dead person) syn 扫视 掃視 sǎo shì to run one's eyes over / to sweep one's eyes over syn 横贯 橫貫 héng guàn horizontal traverse / to cut across / to cross transversally 鹊桥 鵲橋 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 笑逐颜开 笑逐顏開 xiào zhú yán kāi smile spread across the face (idiom) / beaming with pleasure / all smiles / joy written across one's face syn 一马平川 一馬平川 yī mǎ píng chuān flat land one could gallop straight across (idiom) / wide expanse of flat country syn 拦腰 攔腰 lán yāo (hitting) squarely in the middle / (slicing) across the middle / to hold by the waist syn 纵横驰骋 縱橫馳騁 zòng héng chí chěng to criss-cross / to run unhindered across the whole country syn 满面 滿面 mǎn miàn across one's whole face / (smiling) from ear to ear 划过 划過 huá guò (of a meteor etc) to streak across (the sky) / (of a searchlight, lightning etc) to play across (the sky) 回族 huí zú Hui Islamic ethnic group living across China 统考 統考 tǒng kǎo unified examination (e.g. across the country) 突厥 tū jué Turkic people, who lived across the Eurasian continent / (esp.) the Göktürks of medieval Inner Asia 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 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 跨海大橋 kuà hǎi dà qiáo bay bridge (elevated bridge across stretch of water) 横断 橫斷 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) syn 贺兰山 賀蘭山 hè lán shān Helan Mountains, lying across part of the border between Ningxia and Inner Mongolia 满堂红 滿堂紅 mǎn táng hóng success across the board / victory in everything one touches syn 横切 橫切 héng qiē to cut across / a horizontal cut 裹挟 裹挾 guǒ xié to sweep along / to coerce syn 卧轨 臥軌 wò guǐ to lie across the railway tracks (to commit suicide or to prevent trains from getting through) 划拉 huá la to sweep / to brush away syn 卷 捲 juǎn to roll up / to sweep up / to carry along / a roll / classifier for rolls, spools etc syn 闪 閃 shǎn to dodge / to duck out of the way / to beat it / shaken (by a fall) / to sprain / to pull a muscle / lightning / spark / a flash / to flash (across one's mind) / to leave behind / (Internet slang) (of a display of affection) "dazzlingly" saccharine syn 扫 掃 sǎo to sweep (with a brush or broom) / to sweep away / to wipe out / to get rid of / to sweep (one's eyes etc) over / to scan syn 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 syn 跨 kuà to step across / to stride over / to straddle / to span syn 横 橫 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 syn 荡 蕩 dàng to wash / to squander / to sweep away / to move / to shake / dissolute / pond syn 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 syn 掠 lüè to take over by force / to rob / to plunder / to brush over / to skim / to sweep syn 涉 shè (literary) to wade across a body of water / (bound form) to experience / to undergo / to be involved / to concern syn 亘 亙 gèn extending all the way across / running all the way through 泅渡 qiú dù to swim across 怒形于色 怒形於色 nù xíng yú sè to betray anger (idiom) / fury written across one's face syn 拦河坝 攔河壩 lán hé bà a dam across a river 跋 bá postscript / to trek across mountains syn 刎 wěn cut across (throat) syn 躐 liè step across syn 一扫而空 一掃而空 yī sǎo ér kōng (idiom) to make a clean sweep of / to clean out syn 远渡重洋 遠渡重洋 yuǎn dù chóng yáng to travel across the oceans syn 隔岸观火 隔岸觀火 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) syn 通盘 通盤 tōng pán across the board / comprehensive / overall / global syn 扫除天下 掃除天下 sǎo chú tiān xià to sweep away evil / to purge (the world of crime) 秋风扫落叶 秋風掃落葉 qiū fēng sǎo luò yè lit. as the autumn gale sweeps away the fallen leaves (idiom) / to drive out the old and make a clean sweep 笐 gāng bamboos placed across wooden frames on which grain may be stored in damp climates 暴虎冯河 暴虎馮河 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 狂三詐四 kuáng sān zhà sì to deceive and swindle across the board (idiom) 转战千里 轉戰千里 zhuǎn zhàn qiān lǐ fighting everywhere over a thousand miles (idiom) / constant fighting across the country / never-ending struggle 声纳扫海 聲納掃海 sonar sweep / sweep 敔 yǔ percussion instrument shaped as a hollow wooden tiger, with serrated strip across the back, across which one runs a drumstick 疾驰而过 疾馳而過 jí chí ér guò to sweep past / to hurtle past / to swoosh past 席卷亚洲 席卷亞洲 xí juǎn yà zhōu to sweep through Asia 劲吹 勁吹 jìng chuī (of wind) to blow strongly / (fig.) (of trends, changes etc) to sweep through society 报喜不报忧 報喜不報憂 bào xǐ bù bào yōu to report only the good news, not the bad news / to hold back unpleasant news / to sweep bad news under the carpet 扫街 掃街 sǎo jiē to sweep the streets / to canvas (for votes, sales etc) 流动账户 流動賬戶 liú dòng zhàng hù sweep accounts 扫描频率 掃描頻率 sweep rate 扫描系统 掃描系統 sweep system / multi-transducer sonar 扫探 掃探 sweep 乒周期 ping cycle / ping period / sweep 各人自扫门前雪，莫管他家瓦上霜 各人自掃門前雪，莫管他家瓦上霜 gè rén zì sǎo mén qián xuě , mò guǎn tā jiā wǎ shàng shuāng sweep the snow from your own door step, don't worry about the frost on your neighbor's roof (idiom) 桔槔 jié gāo well sweep (device for raising and lowering a bucket in a well, using a pivoted pole) 海峡两岸关系协会 海峽兩岸關係協會 hǎi xiá liǎng àn guān xi xié huì PRC Association for Relations Across the Taiwan Straits (ARATS) 海协会 海協會 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] 横截 橫截 héng jié to cut across / cross-sectional / transverse 回族人 huí zú rén Hui person / member of Hui ethnic group living across China 对过 對過 duì guò across / opposite / the other side 弥封 彌封 mí fēng to sign across the seal (as a precaution against fraud) 怒容满面 怒容滿面 nù róng mǎn miàn scowling in anger / rage written across one's face 柳条边 柳條邊 liǔ tiáo biān Willow palisade across Liaoning, 17th century barrier 棕绷 棕繃 zōng bēng rectangular frame with a palm fiber mat woven across it (placed on a bed frame as the sleeping surface) 栈径 棧徑 zhàn jìng a plank road (built on trestles across the face of a cliff) 横尸遍野 橫屍遍野 héng shī biàn yě corpses are strewn across the field (typically after a battle) 横陈 橫陳 héng chén to lie in disarray / to cut across / to traverse 涉渡 shè dù to ford (a stream) / to wade across 