夜开花 (夜開花)
yè kāi huā
Pinyin

Definition

夜开花 (夜開花)
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yè kāi huā
  1. bottle gourd (i.e. 瓠瓜[hù guā])

Character Decomposition

Related Words (20)

  1. 1 variant: 夜 yè
bàn yè
  1. 1 midnight
  2. 2 in the middle of the night
yè diàn
  1. 1 nightclub
yè wǎn
  1. 1 night
  2. 2 classifier: 个 gè
yè jiān
  1. 1 nighttime
  2. 2 evening or night (e.g. classes)

Idioms (20)

俾夜作昼
bǐ yè zuò zhòu
  1. 1 lit. to make night as day (idiom); fig. to burn the midnight oil
  2. 2 work especially hard
俾昼作夜
bǐ zhòu zuò yè
  1. 1 to make day as night (idiom, from Book of Songs); fig. to prolong one's pleasure regardless of the hour
借花献佛
jiè huā xiàn Fó
  1. 1 lit. presenting the Buddha with borrowed flowers (idiom); fig. to win favor or influence using sb else's property
  2. 2 plagiarism
名花有主
míng huā yǒu zhǔ
  1. 1 the girl is already taken (idiom)
夙夜匪懈
sù yè fěi xiè
  1. 1 to work from morning to night (idiom)