丹田
dān tián
Pinyin
Definition
丹田
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- pubic region
- point two inches below the navel where one's qi resides
Character Decomposition
Idioms (12)
求田问舍
- 1 lit. to be interested exclusively in the acquisition of estate (idiom)
- 2 fig. to have no lofty aspirations in life
渤澥桑田
- 1 lit. blue seas where once was mulberry fields (idiom, from 史記|史记[Shǐ jì], Record of the Grand Historian); time brings great changes
- 2 life's vicissitudes
沧海桑田
- 1 lit. the blue sea turned into mulberry fields (idiom)
- 2 fig. the transformations of the world
牡丹虽好,全仗绿叶扶
- 1 Although the peony is beautiful, it depends entirely on help from the green leaves (idiom). However brilliant you may be, you can't do anything without support from others.
牡丹虽好,全仗绿叶扶持
- 1 Although the peony is beautiful, it depends entirely on help from the green leaves (idiom). However brilliant you may be, you can't do anything without support from others.