夜开花 (夜開花)
yè kāi huā
Pinyin
Definition
夜开花 (夜開花)
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- bottle gourd (i.e. 瓠瓜[hù guā])
Character Decomposition
Idioms (20)
俾夜作昼
- 1 lit. to make night as day (idiom); fig. to burn the midnight oil
- 2 work especially hard
俾昼作夜
- 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
- 1 lit. presenting the Buddha with borrowed flowers (idiom); fig. to win favor or influence using sb else's property
- 2 plagiarism
名花有主
- 1 the girl is already taken (idiom)
夙夜匪懈
- 1 to work from morning to night (idiom)