弱小
ruò xiǎo
Pinyin
Definition
弱小
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- small and weak
- puny
- the small and weak
- children
- women and children
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)
以弱胜强
- 1 using the weak to defeat the strong (idiom); to win from a position of weakness
Sample Sentences
猎人假扮成弱小的猪,让老虎来吃。等老虎靠近了,猎人就把它抓起来吃掉。
The hunter pretends to be a vulnerable pig to lure the tiger to eat it. Once the tiger approaches, the hunter catches it and eats it.