五虎将 (五虎將)
Wǔ hǔ jiàng
Pinyin
Definition
五虎将 (五虎將)
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- Liu Bei's five great generals in Romance of the Three Kingdoms, namely: Guan Yu 關羽|关羽, Zhang Fei 張飛|张飞, Zhao Yun 趙雲|赵云, Ma Chao 馬超|马超, Huang Zhong 黃忠|黄忠
Character Decomposition
Idioms (20)
一五一十
- 1 lit. count by fives and tens (idiom); to narrate systematically and in full detail
一山不容二虎
- 1 lit. the mountain can't have two tigers (idiom)
- 2 fig. this town ain't big enough for the two of us
- 3 (of two rivals) to be fiercely competitive
三五成群
- 1 in groups of three or four (idiom)
三人成虎
- 1 three men talking makes a tiger (idiom); repeated rumor becomes a fact
三令五申
- 1 to order again and again (idiom)