割股疗亲 (割股療親)
gē gǔ liǎo qīn
Pinyin
Definition
割股疗亲 (割股療親)
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- to cut flesh from one's thigh to nourish a sick parent (idiom)
- filial thigh-cutting
Character Decomposition
Related Words (20)
- 1 buttocks
- 2 bottom
- 3 butt
- 4 back part
- 1 thigh
- 2 part of a whole
- 3 portion of a sum
- 4 (stock) share
- 5 strand of a thread
- 6 low-level administrative unit, translated as "section" or "department" etc, ranked below 科[kē]
- 7 classifier for long winding things like ropes, rivers etc
- 8 classifier for smoke, smells etc: thread, puff, whiff
- 9 classifier for bands of people, gangs etc
- 10 classifier for sudden forceful actions
- 1 stock market
- 1 stock investor
- 2 share trader
- 1 share certificate
- 2 stock (finance)
Idioms (10)
任人宰割
- 1 to get trampled on (idiom)
- 2 to be taken advantage of
割股疗亲
- 1 to cut flesh from one's thigh to nourish a sick parent (idiom)
- 2 filial thigh-cutting
割袍断义
- 1 to rip one's robe as a sign of repudiating a sworn brotherhood (idiom)
- 2 to break all friendly ties
割鸡焉用牛刀
- 1 lit. why use a pole-ax to slaughter a chicken? (idiom)
- 2 fig. to waste effort on a trifling matter
- 3 also written 殺雞焉用牛刀|杀鸡焉用牛刀[shā jī yān yòng niú dāo]
心如刀割
- 1 to feel as if having one's heart cut out (idiom)
- 2 to be torn with grief