尚方剑 (尚方劍)
shàng fāng jiàn
Pinyin
Definition
尚方剑 (尚方劍)
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- imperial sword (giving bearer arbitrary powers)
- in fiction, Chinese version of 007's license to kill
Character Decomposition
Related Words (20)
- 1 region
- 2 regional (away from the central administration)
- 3 local
- 1 government
- 2 official (approved or issued by an authority)
- 1 counterpart
- 2 other person involved
- 3 opposite side
- 4 other side
- 5 receiving party
- 1 surname Fang
- 1 convenient
- 2 suitable
- 3 to facilitate
- 4 to make things easy
- 5 having money to spare
- 6 (euphemism) to relieve oneself
Idioms (20)
一醉方休
- 1 to get thoroughly drunk (idiom)
- 2 to get plastered
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
三个和尚没水喝
- 1 lit. three monks have no water to drink (idiom)
- 2 fig. everybody's business is nobody's business
- 3 (If there is one monk, he will fetch water for himself. If there are two, they will fetch water together. But if there are three or more, none will take it upon himself to fetch water.)
不以规矩,不能成方圆
- 1 without rules, nothing can be done (idiom, from Mencius); one must follow some rules
来日方长
- 1 the future is long (idiom); there will be ample time for that later
- 2 We'll cross that bridge when we get there