令堂
lìng táng
Pinyin
Definition
令堂
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- (honorific) your mother
Character Decomposition
Idioms (20)
三令五申
- 1 to order again and again (idiom)
上有天堂,下有苏杭
- 1 lit. there is heaven above, and there is 蘇杭|苏杭[Sū Háng] below (idiom)
- 2 fig. the beauty and affluence of Suzhou and Hangzhou is comparable with heaven
令人发指
- 1 to make one's hair stand up in anger (idiom); to raise people's hackles
令行禁止
- 1 lit. if he orders you go, he forbids you stop (idiom); fig. to demand exact compliance with instructions
- 2 to ensure strictly obedience
冠冕堂皇
- 1 high-sounding
- 2 dignified
- 3 pompous (idiom)