花花绿绿 (花花綠綠)
huā huā lu:4 lu:4
Pinyin

Definition

花花绿绿 (花花綠綠)
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huā huā lu:4 lu:4
  1. brightly colored
  2. gaudy

Character Decomposition

Related Words (20)

桃花运
táo huā yùn
  1. 1 luck with the ladies
  2. 2 a romance
  3. 3 good luck
烟花
yān huā
  1. 1 fireworks
  2. 2 prostitute (esp. in Yuan theater)
花
Huā
  1. 1 surname Hua
雪花
xuě huā
  1. 1 snowflake
鲜花
xiān huā
  1. 1 flower
  2. 2 fresh flowers
  3. 3 classifier: 朵 duǒ

Idioms (20)

借花献佛
jiè huā xiàn Fó
  1. 1 lit. presenting the Buddha with borrowed flowers (idiom); fig. to win favor or influence using sb else's property
  2. 2 plagiarism
名花有主
míng huā yǒu zhǔ
  1. 1 the girl is already taken (idiom)
天花乱坠
tiān huā luàn zhuì
  1. 1 lit. a deluge of heavenly flowers (idiom)
  2. 2 fig. extravagant embellishments
  3. 3 hype
奇花异卉
qí huā yì huì
  1. 1 exotic flowers and rare herbs (idiom)
奇花异草
qí huā yì cǎo
  1. 1 very rarely seen, unusual (idiom)

Sample Sentences

我喜欢白色。但是我老婆喜欢暖色调，什么黄色、橙色。你说，家里搞成花花绿绿的还怎么住？
wǒ xǐhuan báisè 。dànshì wǒ lǎopo xǐhuan nuǎn sèdiào ，shénme huángsè 、chéngsè 。nǐ shuō ，jiālǐ gǎo chéng huāhuālǜlǜ de hái zěnme zhù ？
I like white. But my wife likes warm colors like yellow and orange. Tell me, how can we live here if everything is really gaudy?
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