投桃报李 (投桃報李)
tóu táo bào lǐ
Pinyin
Definition
投桃报李 (投桃報李)
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- toss a peach, get back a plum (idiom); to return a favor
- to exchange gifts
- Scratch my back, and I'll scratch yours.
Character Decomposition
Related Words (20)
- 1 to vote
- 2 vote
- 1 congenial
- 1 to cast
- 2 to send
- 3 to throw oneself (into the river etc)
- 4 to seek refuge
- 5 to place oneself into the hands of
- 1 to throw into
- 2 to put into
- 3 to throw oneself into
- 4 to participate in
- 5 to invest in
- 6 absorbed
- 7 engrossed
- 1 to throw (a projectile)
- 2 to cast (light)
Idioms (20)
五体投地
- 1 to prostrate oneself in admiration (idiom); to adulate sb
张三李四
- 1 Zhang the Third and Li the Fourth (idiom)
- 2 Tom, Dick and Harry
张冠李戴
- 1 lit. to put Zhang's hat on Li's head
- 2 to attribute sth to the wrong person (idiom)
- 3 to confuse one thing with another
张家长,李家短
- 1 lit. the Zhangs are better off than the Lis (idiom); to gossip about the neighbors
情投意合
- 1 to have an affinity with each other (idiom)
- 2 to find each other congenial