便道
biàn dào
Pinyin
Definition
便道
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- pavement
- sidewalk
- shortcut
- makeshift road
Character Decomposition
Related Words (20)
- 1 plain
- 2 informal
- 3 suitable
- 4 convenient
- 5 opportune
- 6 to urinate or defecate
- 7 equivalent to 就[jiù]: then
- 8 in that case
- 9 even if
- 10 soon afterwards
- 1 flavor
- 2 smell
- 3 hint of
- 1 to know
- 2 to become aware of
- 3 also pr. [zhī dao]
- 1 inconvenient
- 2 inappropriate
- 3 unsuitable
- 4 short of cash
- 1 the ways of the world
- 2 the morals of the time
Idioms (20)
一人得道,鸡犬升天
- 1 lit. when a man achieves the Dao, his poultry and dogs rise to Heaven (idiom)
- 2 fig. to ride on sb else's success
- 3 Once one man gets a government position, all his cronies get in too
- 4 Once sb has cracked the problem, every Tom, Dick and Harry can do it
一语道破
- 1 one word says it all (idiom)
- 2 to hit the nail on the head
- 3 to be pithy and correct
不成功便成仁
- 1 to succeed or die trying (idiom)
不足为外人道
- 1 no use to tell others
- 2 let's keep this between ourselves (idiom)
仁义道德
- 1 compassion, duty, propriety and integrity (idiom); all the traditional virtues
- 2 mainly used sarcastically, to mean hypocritical