剪掉
jiǎn diào
Pinyin
Definition
剪掉
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- to cut off
- to cut away
- to trim
Character Decomposition
Related Words (20)
- 1 surname Jian
- 1 to fall
- 2 to drop
- 3 to lag behind
- 4 to lose
- 5 to go missing
- 6 to reduce
- 7 fall (in prices)
- 8 to lose (value, weight etc)
- 9 to wag
- 10 to swing
- 11 to turn
- 12 to change
- 13 to exchange
- 14 to swap
- 15 to show off
- 16 to shed (hair)
- 17 (used after certain verbs to express completion, fulfillment, removal etc)
- 1 to lose
- 2 to throw away
- 3 to discard
- 4 to cast away
- 1 to delete
Idioms (6)
剪草除根
- 1 lit. cut grass and pull out roots (idiom); fig. to destroy root and branch
- 2 to eradicate
天上不会掉馅饼
- 1 there is no such thing as a free lunch (idiom)
天上掉馅饼
- 1 a meat pie falls from the sky (idiom)
- 2 to have something fall into your lap
尾大不掉
- 1 large tail obstructs action (idiom); bottom heavy
- 2 fig. rendered ineffective by subordinates
掉书袋
- 1 lit. to wave around one's bookbag (idiom)
- 2 fig. to show off one's erudition
- 3 a person who does so