士巴拿
shì bā ná
Pinyin
Definition
士巴拿
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- (dialect) spanner (loanword)
Character Decomposition
Idioms (20)
仁人志士
- 1 gentleman aspiring to benevolence (idiom); people with lofty ideals
仁人义士
- 1 those with lofty ideals (idiom)
- 2 men of vision
博士买驴
- 1 lit. the scholar buys a donkey (idiom); fig. long-winded verbiage that never gets to the point
- 2 idiom mocking scholastic pomposity
吃人家的嘴软,拿人家的手短
- 1 lit. the mouth that has been fed by others is soft, the hand that has received doesn't reach (idiom)
- 2 fig. one is partial to those from whom presents have been accepted
哑巴吃黄莲
- 1 no choice but to suffer in silence (idiom)
- 2 also written 啞巴吃黃連|哑巴吃黄连
- 3 (often precedes 有苦說不出|有苦说不出[yǒu kǔ shuō bu chū])