卵裂
luǎn liè
Pinyin
Definition
卵裂
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- cleavage of fertilized ovum into cells
Character Decomposition
Related Words (20)
- 1 to split up
- 2 to divide
- 3 to break up
- 4 fission
- 5 schism
- 1 egg
- 2 ovum
- 3 spawn
- 4 (coll.) testicles
- 5 (old) penis
- 6 (expletive) fucking
- 1 heaven falls and earth rends (idiom); rocked by a major disaster
- 2 fig. violent revolution
- 3 major social upheaval
- 1 to rip apart
- 2 to tear
- 3 laceration
- 4 rent
- 1 to split
- 2 to crack
- 3 to break open
- 4 to rend
Idioms (12)
事危累卵
- 1 lit. the matter has become a pile of eggs (idiom); fig. at a critical juncture
以卵击石
- 1 lit. to strike a stone with egg (idiom); to attempt the impossible
- 2 to invite disaster by overreaching oneself
危如累卵
- 1 precarious as pile of eggs (idiom); ready to fall and break at any moment
- 2 in a dangerous state
四分五裂
- 1 all split up and in pieces (idiom); disunity (in an organization)
- 2 complete lack of unity
- 3 to disintegrate
- 4 falling apart
- 5 to be at sixes and sevens
天崩地裂
- 1 heaven falls and earth rends (idiom); rocked by a major disaster
- 2 fig. violent revolution
- 3 major social upheaval