扣人心弦
kòu rén xīn xián
Pinyin

Definition

扣人心弦
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kòu rén xīn xián
  1. to excite
  2. to thrill
  3. exciting
  4. thrilling
  5. cliff-hanging

Character Decomposition

Related Words (20)

人
rén
  1. 1 man
  2. 2 person
  3. 3 people
  4. 4 classifier: 个 gè
  5. 5 classifier: 位 wèi
人生
rén shēng
  1. 1 life (one's time on earth)
别人
bié ren
  1. 1 other people
  2. 2 others
  3. 3 other person
女人
nǚ rén
  1. 1 woman
心
xīn
  1. 1 heart
  2. 2 mind
  3. 3 intention
  4. 4 center
  5. 5 core
  6. 6 classifier: 颗 kē
  7. 7 classifier: 个 gè

Idioms (20)

一人得道，鸡犬升天
yī rén dé dào , jī quǎn shēng tiān
  1. 1 lit. when a man achieves the Dao, his poultry and dogs rise to Heaven (idiom)
  2. 2 fig. to ride on sb else's success
  3. 3 Once one man gets a government position, all his cronies get in too
  4. 4 Once sb has cracked the problem, every Tom, Dick and Harry can do it
一心一德
yī xīn yī dé
  1. 1 of one heart and one mind (idiom)
一心二用
yī xīn èr yòng
  1. 1 to do two things at once (idiom)
  2. 2 to multitask
  3. 3 to divide one's attention
一门心思
yī mén xīn si
  1. 1 to set one's heart on sth (idiom)
一鸣惊人
yī míng jīng rén
  1. 1 to amaze the world with a single brilliant feat (idiom); an overnight celebrity

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！
dāngrán shì dà zhìzuò ，hàozī èrshí yì rìyuán ne ！huàmiàn fēicháng yǎngyǎn ，qíngjié yě kòurénxīnxián ，nǐ zěnme kěnéng bù zhīdào ne ？lǎobǎn ，nǐ zhèyàng zuò shēngyi luòwǔ luō ！
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!?
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