和尚
hé shang
Pinyin
Definition
和尚
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- Buddhist monk
Character Decomposition
Idioms (20)
一唱一和
- 1 to echo one another (idiom)
一团和气
- 1 to keep on the right side of everyone (idiom)
- 2 warm and affable
丈二和尚,摸不着头脑
- 1 lit. like a three-meter high monk, you can't rub his head (idiom)
- 2 fig. at a total loss
三个和尚没水喝
- 1 lit. three monks have no water to drink (idiom)
- 2 fig. everybody's business is nobody's business
- 3 (If there is one monk, he will fetch water for himself. If there are two, they will fetch water together. But if there are three or more, none will take it upon himself to fetch water.)
做一天和尚撞一天钟
- 1 lit. as a monk for today, toll today's bell (idiom)
- 2 fig. to do one's job mechanically
- 3 to hold a position passively
Sample Sentences
是福建菜,用料都是最顶级的山珍海味,包括鲍鱼、鱼翅,用小火慢慢熬制。传说是人间第一鲜美,连和尚都挡不住诱惑,要来品尝。
It's a Fujian dish. The ingredients are the highest-grade delicacies, including abalone and shark fins. You use a low flame to cook it slowly. The legend says that it's the finest dish on earth. Even monks can't resist its temptations, and want to try it.
所以说啊,这所谓时尚啊,真是让人丈二和尚摸不着头脑。
So that's why I say, what we call fashion really leaves one at a loss.
做和尚
to be a monk
去了,挺好玩的,有很多寺庙和和尚。
I did. It was quite fun. There were many temples and monks.
从前有座山,山上有座庙。庙里有一个老和尚和一个小和尚。老和尚对小和尚说:"从前有座山,山上有座庙。..."
Long ago, there was a mountain. On the mountain, there was a temple. In the temple there was an old monk, and a young monk. The old monk said to the young monk, 'Long ago, there was a mountain. On the mountain there was a temple'...
沙和尚跪着恳求唐僧:“师父,求您别念了。”
Friar Sand fell to his knees and implored Tang Seng, "Master, I beg you not to read the incantation."
唐僧和沙和尚见那村姑并无恶意,便慢慢朝圈外走去。
Tang Seng and Friar Sand thought the girl harmless and slowly began moving outside the circle.
沙和尚也过来求情。
Friar Sand came forward, also asking for mercy.
沙和尚一下子睁开眼睛,喝道:“是谁!”
Friar Sand woke up immediately and shouted, "Who is it?!"
为了了解和尚的生活,他去了寺庙。
In order to understand the life of a monk, he went to a temple.