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  *捉* | 捉* | *捉
to clutch / to grab / to capture
HSK 6
to play hide-and-seek
HSK 7-9
to catch / to grapple with / to hold onto
to tease
to catch; to seize; to capture
HSK 7-9
to pair off (for a confrontation)
lit. chasing the wind and clutching at shadows (idiom); fig. groundless accusations / to act on hearsay evidence
(idiom) unpredictable; elusive; hard to pin down
to capture
to arrest / to catch a criminal
lit. to catch a turtle in a jar (idiom) / fig. to go after easy prey
to capture alive
trap (for animals etc)
elusive / hard to pin down / enigmatic
to arrest / to seize / to capture
lit. to catch sparrows blindfolded (idiom) / fig. to act blindly
to bring to justice
to fathom / to make sense of / to grasp
to capture
to catch a couple in the act (adultery, illicit sexual relations)
humorous pronunciation of 著急|着急
to catch a thief by closing his escape route (idiom)
lit. a thief crying "Stop the thief!" (idiom) / fig. to accuse sb of a theft and try to sneak away oneself / to cover up one's misdeeds by shifting the blame onto others
lit. pulling on the lapels exposes the elbows (idiom) / strapped for cash / unable to make ends meet
it doesn't matter whether a cat is white or black; as long as it catches mice it's a good cat (variant of a Sichuanese saying used in a speech by Deng Xiaoping 鄧小平|邓小平 in 1962, usually associated with his economic reforms starting in 1978, in which pragmatism was favored over ideological purity)


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