乘機

See also: 乘机

Chinese

FWOTD – 19 September 2023

		ride; mount; make use of ride; mount; make use of; take advantage of; multiply; to avail of; to ride	machine; opportunity; secret
trad. (乘機)		乘	機
simp. (乘机)		乘	机

Mandarin
(Pinyin): chéngjī

(Zhuyin): ㄔㄥˊ ㄐㄧ
Cantonese
(Guangzhou–Hong Kong, Jyutping): sing⁴ gei¹

(Taishan, Wiktionary): sen³ gei¹
Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): sēng-ki

乘機

to seize the opportunity to; to take advantage of the opportunity
- 必須懂得，沒有肅清的暗藏的反革命分子是不會死心的，他們必定要乘機搗亂。 [MSC, trad.]
  必须懂得，没有肃清的暗藏的反革命分子是不会死心的，他们必定要乘机捣乱。 [MSC, simp.]
  From: 1957, 毛澤東 (Mao Zedong), 《關於正確處理人民內部矛盾的問題》 (On the Correct Handling of Contradictions Among the People), 《毛澤東選集》. English translation based on the Foreign Languages Press edition
  Bìxū dǒngde, méiyǒu sùqīng de àncáng de fǎngémìng fènzǐ shì bù huì sǐxīn de, tāmen bìdìng yào chéngjī dǎoluàn. [Pinyin]
  It must be understood that the hidden counter-revolutionaries still at large will not take things lying down, but will certainly seize even opportunity to make trouble.
to take a plane
起飛前40分鐘停止辦理乘機手續。 [MSC, trad.]
起飞前40分钟停止办理乘机手续。 [MSC, simp.]
Qǐfēi qián sìshí fēnzhōng tíngzhǐ bànlǐ chéngjī shǒuxù. [Pinyin]
Check-in closes 40 minutes before departure.

chữ Hán Nôm in this term
乘	機

乘機

chữ Hán form of thừa cơ (“to seize the opportunity to, to make use of the occasion to”)