to catch; to seize; to capture

to catch; to grapple with; to hold onto

to play hide-and-seek

to capture alive

to tease

to arrest; to catch a criminal

elusive; hard to pin down; enigmatic

to fathom; to make sense of; to grasp

to capture

to catch a couple in the act (adultery, illicit sexual relations)

to pair off (for a confrontation)

humorous pronunciation of 著急|着急[zhao2 ji2]

to arrest; to seize; to capture

to capture

trap (for animals etc)

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

to catch a thief by closing his escape route (idiom)

to bring to justice

(idiom) unpredictable; elusive; hard to pin down

lit. pulling on the lapels exposes the elbows (idiom); strapped for cash; unable to make ends meet

lit. chasing the wind and clutching at shadows (idiom); fig. groundless accusations; to act on hearsay evidence

(lit.) to catch a turtle in a jar (idiom); (fig.) to go after easy prey

lit. to catch sparrows blindfolded (idiom); fig. to act blindly

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[Deng4 Xiao3 ping2] in 1962, usually associated with his economic reforms starting in 1978, in which pragmatism was favored over ideological purity)