末梢
mò shāo
Pinyin
Definition
末梢
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- tip
- end
- last few days
Character Decomposition
Idioms (4)
强弩之末
- 1 lit. an arrow at the end of its flight (idiom)
- 2 fig. spent force
舍本逐末
- 1 to neglect the root and pursue the tip (idiom)
- 2 to neglect fundamentals and concentrate on details
本末倒置
- 1 lit. to invert root and branch (idiom); fig. confusing cause and effect
- 2 to stress the incidental over the fundamental
- 3 to put the cart before the horse
穷途末路
- 1 lit. the path exhausted, the end of the road (idiom); an impasse
- 2 in a plight with no way out
- 3 things have reached a dead end