倒春寒
dào chūn hán
Pinyin

Definition

倒春寒
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dào chūn hán
  1. cold snap during the spring

Related Words (20)

dǎo
  1. 1 to fall
  2. 2 to collapse
  3. 3 to lie horizontally
  4. 4 to overthrow
  5. 5 to fail
  6. 6 to go bankrupt
  7. 7 to change (trains or buses)
  8. 8 to move around
  9. 9 to resell at a profit
hán jià
  1. 1 winter vacation
xīn chūn
  1. 1 the beginning of Spring
  2. 2 the 10 or 20 days following the lunar New Year's Day
chūn
  1. 1 old variant of 春[chūn]
chūn tiān
  1. 1 spring (season)
  2. 2 classifier: 个 gè

Idioms (20)

一年之计在于春
yī nián zhī jì zài yú chūn
  1. 1 the whole year must be planned for in the spring (idiom)
  2. 2 early planning is the key to success
一暴十寒
yī pù shí hán
  1. 1 one day's sun, ten days' frost (idiom, from Mencius); fig. to work for a bit then skimp
  2. 2 sporadic effort
  3. 3 short attention span
一曝十寒
yī pù shí hán
  1. 1 one day's sun, ten days' frost (idiom, from Mencius); fig. to work for a bit then skimp
  2. 2 sporadic effort
  3. 3 lack of sticking power
  4. 4 short attention span
人生一世,草木一春
rén shēng yī shì , cǎo mù yī chūn
  1. 1 Man has but one life, grass but one spring (idiom). fig. the brevity of human existence
倒悬之危
dào xuán zhī wēi
  1. 1 lit. the crisis of being hanged upside down (idiom); fig. extremely critical situation
  2. 2 dire straits