大炮打蚊子 Save Create a free account to save words dàpàodǎwénzi ㄉㄚˋ ㄆㄠˋ ㄉㄚˇ ㄨㄣˊ ˙ㄗ cannon fire to hit a mosquito to use a sledgehammer to crack a nut Character by character 大(dà)big 炮(pào)cannon 打(dǎ)hit 蚊(wén)mosquito 子(zi)noun suffix, as in 椅子 yǐzi "chair" Sign up for a free account to save words and review them A Chinese word or character, or English Search Sources CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0 pinyinjs, Apache-2.0