小花远志 (小花遠志)
xiǎo huā yuǎn zhì
Pinyin
Definition
小花远志 (小花遠志)
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- small-flowered milkwort (Polygala arvensis Willd. or P. telephioides), with roots used in Chinese medicine
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
不以词害志
- 1 don't let rhetoric spoil the message (idiom); don't get carried away with flowery speech to the detriment of what you want to say
不以辞害志
- 1 don't let rhetoric spoil the message (idiom); don't get carried away with flowery speech to the detriment of what you want to say
不拘小节
- 1 to not bother about trifles (idiom)
人穷志不穷
- 1 poor but with great ambitions (idiom)
- 2 poor but principled