堂倌
táng guān
Pinyin
Definition
堂倌
-
- (old) waiter
- attendant
Character Decomposition
Related Words (20)
- 1 paradise
- 2 heaven
- 1 high-sounding
- 2 dignified
- 3 pompous (idiom)
- 1 to live under the same roof (of different generations)
- 1 (main) hall
- 2 large room for a specific purpose
- 3 classifier: 间 jiān
- 4 relationship between cousins etc on the paternal side of a family
- 5 of the same clan
- 6 classifier for classes, lectures etc
- 7 classifier for sets of furniture
- 1 older male patrilineal cousin
Idioms (15)
上有天堂,下有苏杭
- 1 lit. there is heaven above, and there is 蘇杭|苏杭[Sū Háng] below (idiom)
- 2 fig. the beauty and affluence of Suzhou and Hangzhou is comparable with heaven
冠冕堂皇
- 1 high-sounding
- 2 dignified
- 3 pompous (idiom)
升堂入室
- 1 lit. to reach the main room and enter the chamber (idiom)
- 2 fig. to gradually attain proficiency
- 3 to attain a higher level
哄堂大笑
- 1 the whole room roaring with laughter (idiom)
四世同堂
- 1 four generations under one roof (idiom)