小寒
Xiǎo hán
Pinyin
Definition
小寒
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- Lesser Cold, 23rd of the 24 solar terms 二十四節氣|二十四节气 6th-19th January
Character Decomposition
Related Words (20)
- 1 small
- 2 tiny
- 3 few
- 4 young
- 1 bitter cold
- 2 severe winter
- 1 Great Cold, 24th of the 24 solar terms 二十四節氣|二十四节气 20th January-3rd February
- 1 dimension
- 2 magnitude
- 3 size
- 4 measurement
- 5 large and small
- 6 at any rate
- 7 adults and children
- 8 consideration of seniority
Idioms (20)
一暴十寒
- 1 one day's sun, ten days' frost (idiom, from Mencius); fig. to work for a bit then skimp
- 2 sporadic effort
- 3 short attention span
一曝十寒
- 1 one day's sun, ten days' frost (idiom, from Mencius); fig. to work for a bit then skimp
- 2 sporadic effort
- 3 lack of sticking power
- 4 short attention span
上有老下有小
- 1 lit. above are the elderly, below are the young (idiom)
- 2 fig. to have to take care of both one's aging parents and one's children
- 3 sandwich generation
不拘小节
- 1 to not bother about trifles (idiom)
以小人之心,度君子之腹
- 1 to gauge the heart of a gentleman with one's own mean measure (idiom)