乾旦
qián dàn
Pinyin
Definition
乾旦
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- male actor playing the female role (Chinese opera)
Character Decomposition
Related Words (20)
- 1 in case (sth happens)
- 2 if
- 3 once (sth happens, then...)
- 4 when
- 5 in a short time
- 6 in one day
- 1 New Year's Day
- 1 yin and yang
- 2 heaven and earth
- 3 the universe
- 1 Qianling at Xianyang 咸陽市|咸阳市 in Shaanxi, burial site of third Tang emperor 高宗 and empress Wuzetian 武則天|武则天
- 1 Qianlong Emperor (1711-1799), sixth Qing emperor, princely title 寶親王|宝亲王[Bǎo Qīn wáng], personal name 弘曆|弘历[Hóng lì], reigned 1735-1799
Idioms (8)
危在旦夕
- 1 in imminent peril (idiom)
- 2 on the brink of crisis
命在旦夕
- 1 to be at death's door (idiom)
天有不测风云,人有旦夕祸福
- 1 fortune as unpredictable as the weather, every day may bring fortune or calamity (idiom); sth unexpected may happen at any moment
扭转乾坤
- 1 lit. to upend heaven and earth (idiom)
- 2 fig. to change the course of events
- 3 to turn things around
旋乾转坤
- 1 lit. overturning heaven and earth (idiom); earth-shattering
- 2 a radical change