妈妈桑 (媽媽桑)
mā ma sāng
Pinyin
Definition
妈妈桑 (媽媽桑)
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- mama-san, middle-aged woman who runs a brothel, bar etc (loanword from Japanese)
- madam
Character Decomposition
Idioms (4)
失之东隅,收之桑榆
- 1 to lose at sunrise but gain at sunset (idiom)
- 2 to compensate later for one's earlier loss
- 3 what you lose on the swings you gain on the roundabouts
指桑骂槐
- 1 lit. to point at the mulberry tree and curse the locust tree
- 2 fig. to scold sb indirectly
- 3 to make oblique accusations (idiom)
渤澥桑田
- 1 lit. blue seas where once was mulberry fields (idiom, from 史記|史记[Shǐ jì], Record of the Grand Historian); time brings great changes
- 2 life's vicissitudes
沧海桑田
- 1 lit. the blue sea turned into mulberry fields (idiom)
- 2 fig. the transformations of the world