抽咽
chōu yè
Pinyin
Definition
抽咽
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- to sob
Character Decomposition
Idioms (6)
扼襟控咽
- 1 to secure a stranglehold (idiom); fig. to hold a strategic pass
抽丝剥茧
- 1 lit. to spin silk from cocoons
- 2 fig. to make a painstaking investigation (idiom)
狼吞虎咽
- 1 to wolf down one's food (idiom); to devour ravenously
- 2 to gorge oneself
病来如山倒,病去如抽丝
- 1 sickness comes like a landslide, but goes slowly like spinning silk (idiom); expect to convalesce slowly
短中抽长
- 1 to make the best of a bad job
- 2 to make the best use of limited resources (idiom)