向隅
xiàng yú
Pinyin

Definition

向隅
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xiàng yú
  1. lit. to face the corner (idiom)
  2. fig. to miss out on sth

Character Decomposition

Related Words (20)

Xiàng
  1. 1 surname Xiang
fāng xiàng
  1. 1 direction
  2. 2 orientation
  3. 3 path to follow
  4. 4 classifier: 个 gè
yī xiàng
  1. 1 always (previously)
  2. 2 a period of time in the recent past
qīng xiàng
  1. 1 trend
  2. 2 tendency
  3. 3 orientation
nèi xiàng
  1. 1 reserved (personality)
  2. 2 introverted
  3. 3 (economics etc) domestic-oriented

Idioms (12)

向壁虚构
xiàng bì xū gòu
  1. 1 facing a wall, an imaginary construction (idiom); baseless fabrication
向壁虚造
xiàng bì xū zào
  1. 1 facing a wall, an imaginary construction (idiom); baseless fabrication
向隅
xiàng yú
  1. 1 lit. to face the corner (idiom)
  2. 2 fig. to miss out on sth
失之东隅,收之桑榆
shī zhī dōng yú , shōu zhī sāng yú
  1. 1 to lose at sunrise but gain at sunset (idiom)
  2. 2 to compensate later for one's earlier loss
  3. 3 what you lose on the swings you gain on the roundabouts
女生外向
nǚ shēng wài xiàng
  1. 1 a woman is born to leave her family (idiom)
  2. 2 a woman's heart is with her husband