心弦
xīn xián
Pinyin
Definition
心弦
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- heartstrings
Character Decomposition
Related Words (20)
- 1 to grieve
- 2 to be broken-hearted
- 3 to feel deeply hurt
- 1 heart
- 2 innermost being
- 3 (math.) incenter
- 1 to be careful
- 2 to take care
Idioms (20)
一心一德
- 1 of one heart and one mind (idiom)
一心二用
- 1 to do two things at once (idiom)
- 2 to multitask
- 3 to divide one's attention
一门心思
- 1 to set one's heart on sth (idiom)
三心二意
- 1 in two minds about sth (idiom)
- 2 half-hearted
- 3 shilly-shallying
不到黄河心不死
- 1 lit. not to stop until one reaches the Yellow River (idiom)
- 2 fig. to persevere until one reaches one's goal
- 3 to keep going while some hope is left
Sample Sentences
当然是大制作,耗资20亿日元呢!画面非常养眼,情节也扣人心弦,你怎么可能不知道呢?老板,你这样做生意落伍啰!
Of course it's a big movie-- it took 20 billion yen! The cinematography is beautiful, and the plot is thrilling. How could you not know about it? Man, how can you be so behind the times in the way you do business!?