猛犸象 (猛獁象)
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Pinyin
Definition
猛犸象 (猛獁象)
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- see 猛獁|猛犸[měng mǎ]
Character Decomposition
Related Words (20)
Idioms (12)
人心不足蛇吞象
- 1 a man who is never content is like a snake trying to swallow an elephant (idiom)
合眼摸象
- 1 to touch an elephant with closed eyes (idiom); to proceed blindly
洪水猛兽
- 1 lit. severe floods and fierce beasts (idiom)
- 2 fig. great scourges
- 3 extremely dangerous or threatening things
狗嘴里吐不出象牙
- 1 no ivory comes from the mouth of a dog (idiom)
- 2 no good words are to be expected from a scoundrel
盲人摸象
- 1 blind people touch an elephant (idiom, from Nirvana sutra 大般涅槃經|大般涅盘经[dà bān Niè pán jīng]); fig. unable to see the big picture
- 2 to mistake the part for the whole
- 3 unable to see the wood for the trees