小拇指
xiǎo mǔ zhǐ
Pinyin
Definition
小拇指
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- little finger
- pinkie
Character Decomposition
Idioms (20)
一弹指顷
- 1 a snap of the fingers (idiom); in a flash
- 2 in the twinkling of an eye
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)
了如指掌
- 1 to know sth like the back of one's hand (idiom)
- 2 to know (a person, a place etc) inside out
令人发指
- 1 to make one's hair stand up in anger (idiom); to raise people's hackles
Sample Sentences
那只剩下无名指和小拇指了!
Then all that's left are the ring finger and the pinky!
无名指我要戴结婚戒指!小拇指我要用来挠痒痒。
I'm saving the ring finger for my wedding ring. I use my pinky finger to scratch itches.