姐丈
jiě zhàng
Pinyin
Definition
姐丈
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- older sister's husband
- brother-in-law
Character Decomposition
Related Words (20)
- 1 big sister
- 2 elder sister
- 3 older sister (also polite term of address for a girl or woman slightly older than the speaker)
Idioms (6)
一落千丈
- 1 lit. to drop a thousand zhang in one fall (idiom)
- 2 fig. (of business, popularity etc) to suffer a sudden, devastating decline
- 3 to take a dive
丈二和尚,摸不着头脑
- 1 lit. like a three-meter high monk, you can't rub his head (idiom)
- 2 fig. at a total loss
无毒不丈夫
- 1 no poison, no great man (idiom); A great man has to be ruthless.
万丈高楼平地起
- 1 towering buildings are built up from the ground (idiom)
- 2 great oaks from little acorns grow
道高一尺,魔高一丈
- 1 virtue is one foot tall, the devil ten foot (idiom); It takes constant vigilance to stave off evil.