巡捕房
xún bǔ fáng
Pinyin
Definition
巡捕房
-
- (old) police station in a foreign concession 租界[zū jiè]
Character Decomposition
Related Words (20)
Idioms (9)
三天不打,上房揭瓦
- 1 three days without a beating, and a child will scale the roof to rip the tiles (idiom)
- 2 spare the rod, spoil the child
宠擅专房
- 1 an especially favored concubine (idiom)
捕风捉影
- 1 lit. chasing the wind and clutching at shadows (idiom); fig. groundless accusations
- 2 to act on hearsay evidence
撒网捕风
- 1 lit. the wind cannot be caught in a net
- 2 to waste one's effort (idiom)
文房四宝
- 1 Four Treasures of the Study, namely 筆|笔[bǐ], 墨[mò], 紙|纸[zhǐ] and 硯|砚[yàn]
- 2 the essentials of calligraphy and scholarship (idiom)