枕戈寝甲
zhěn gē qǐn jiǎ
Pinyin

Definition

枕戈寝甲
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zhěn gē qǐn jiǎ
  1. to sleep on one's armor with a spear as a pillow (idiom)
  2. to keep ready for battle at all times

Character Decomposition

Related Words (20)

指甲
zhǐ jia
  1. 1 fingernail
枕
zhěn
  1. 1 pillow
  2. 2 to pillow
  3. 3 to rest one's head on (Taiwan pr. [zhèn] for this sense)
枕头
zhěn tou
  1. 1 pillow
甲
jiǎ
  1. 1 first of the ten Heavenly Stems 十天干[shí tiān gān]
  2. 2 (used for an unspecified person or thing)
  3. 3 first (in a list, as a party to a contract etc)
  4. 4 letter "A" or roman "I" in list "A, B, C", or "I, II, III" etc
  5. 5 armor plating
  6. 6 shell or carapace
  7. 7 (of the fingers or toes) nail
  8. 8 bladed leather or metal armor (old)
  9. 9 ranking system used in the Imperial examinations (old)
  10. 10 civil administration unit in the baojia 保甲[bǎo jiǎ] system (old)
  11. 11 ancient Chinese compass point: 75°
兵戈
bīng gē
  1. 1 weapons
  2. 2 arms
  3. 3 fighting
  4. 4 war
意甲
Yì Jiǎ
  1. 1 Serie A, the top division of the Italian football league system
戈壁
Gē bì
  1. 1 Gobi (desert)
抱枕
bào zhěn
  1. 1 bolster
  2. 2 a long pillow or cushion
指甲油
zhǐ jia yóu
  1. 1 nail polish
指甲钳
zhǐ jia qián
  1. 1 nail clipper
探戈
tàn gē
  1. 1 tango (dance) (loanword)
枕套
zhěn tào
  1. 1 pillowcase
泰戈尔
Tài gē ěr
  1. 1 Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941), Indian poet and writer
甲乙
jiǎ yǐ
  1. 1 first two of the ten Heavenly Stems 十天干[shí tiān gān]
甲亢
jiǎ kàng
  1. 1 hyperthyroidism
  2. 2 abbr. for 甲狀腺功能亢進|甲状腺功能亢进[jiǎ zhuàng xiàn gōng néng kàng jìn]
甲子
jiǎ zǐ
  1. 1 first year of the sixty-year cycle (where each year is numbered with one of the 10 heavenly stems 天干[tiān gān] and one of the 12 earthly branches 地支[dì zhī])
  2. 2 the sixty-year cycle
甲方
jiǎ fāng
  1. 1 first party (law)
  2. 2 see also 乙方[yǐ fāng]
甲板
jiǎ bǎn
  1. 1 deck (of a boat etc)
甲状腺
jiǎ zhuàng xiàn
  1. 1 thyroid gland
甲第
jiǎ dì
  1. 1 residence of a noble
  2. 2 top candidate in the imperial examinations

Idioms (15)

兵戈扰攘
bīng gē rǎo rǎng
  1. 1 arms and confusion (idiom); turmoil of war
化干戈为玉帛
huà gān gē wéi yù bó
  1. 1 lit. to exchange weapons of war for gifts of jade and silk (idiom)
  2. 2 fig. to turn hostility into friendship
同室操戈
tóng shì cāo gē
  1. 1 wielding the halberd within the household (idiom); internecine strife
大动干戈
dà dòng gān gē
  1. 1 to go to war (idiom)
  2. 2 to make a big fuss over sth
寝苫枕块
qǐn shān zhěn kuài
  1. 1 bed of straw and pillow of clay (idiom)
  2. 2 the correct etiquette for a filial son during the mourning period
曲肱而枕
qū gōng ér zhěn
  1. 1 lit. to use one's bent arm as a pillow (idiom)
  2. 2 fig. content with simple things
枕冷衾寒
zhěn lěng qīn hán
  1. 1 cold pillow and lonely bed (idiom); fig. cold and solitary existence
枕戈寝甲
zhěn gē qǐn jiǎ
  1. 1 to sleep on one's armor with a spear as a pillow (idiom)
  2. 2 to keep ready for battle at all times
枕戈待旦
zhěn gē dài dàn
  1. 1 to wait for dawn, one's head resting on a spear (idiom)
  2. 2 fully prepared and biding one's time before the battle
枕石漱流
zhěn shí shù liú
  1. 1 to live a hermit's life (in seclusion)
  2. 2 a frugal life (idiom)
案兵束甲
àn bīng shù jiǎ
  1. 1 to rest weapons and loosen armor (idiom); to relax from fighting
案甲休兵
àn jiǎ xiū bīng
  1. 1 to put down weapon and let soldiers rest (idiom); to relax from fighting
甲之蜜糖，乙之砒霜
jiǎ zhī mì táng , yǐ zhī pī shuāng
  1. 1 one man's meat is another man's poison (idiom)
身怀六甲
shēn huái liù jiǎ
  1. 1 to be pregnant (idiom)
高枕无忧
gāo zhěn wú yōu
  1. 1 to sleep peacefully (idiom)
  2. 2 (fig.) to rest easy
  3. 3 to be free of worries

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