多闻天 (多聞天)
Duō wén tiān
Pinyin
Definition
多闻天 (多聞天)
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- Vaisravana (one of the Heavenly Kings)
Character Decomposition
Related Words (20)
- 1 today
- 2 at the present
- 3 now
- 1 many
- 2 much
- 3 often
- 4 a lot of
- 5 numerous
- 6 more
- 7 in excess
- 8 how (to what extent)
- 9 multi-
- 10 Taiwan pr. [duó] when it means "how"
- 1 number
- 2 amount
- 3 somewhat
- 1 day
- 2 sky
- 3 heaven
- 1 land under heaven
- 2 the whole world
- 3 the whole of China
- 4 realm
- 5 rule
Idioms (20)
一人得道,鸡犬升天
- 1 lit. when a man achieves the Dao, his poultry and dogs rise to Heaven (idiom)
- 2 fig. to ride on sb else's success
- 3 Once one man gets a government position, all his cronies get in too
- 4 Once sb has cracked the problem, every Tom, Dick and Harry can do it
一个天南,一个地北
- 1 to live miles apart (idiom)
一柱擎天
- 1 lit. to support the sky as a single pillar (idiom)
- 2 fig. to take a crucial responsibility upon one's shoulders
一步登天
- 1 reaching heaven in a single bound (idiom); (esp. with negative: don't expect) instant success
三天不打,上房揭瓦
- 1 three days without a beating, and a child will scale the roof to rip the tiles (idiom)
- 2 spare the rod, spoil the child