小暑
Xiǎo shǔ
Pinyin
Definition
小暑
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- Xiaoshu or Lesser Heat, 11th of the 24 solar terms 二十四節氣|二十四节气 7th-22nd July
Character Decomposition
Idioms (20)
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)
以小挤大
- 1 minor projects eclipse major ones (idiom)
升斗小民
- 1 poor people (idiom)
- 2 those who live from hand to mouth