招风耳 (招風耳)
zhāo fēng ěr
Pinyin
Definition
招风耳 (招風耳)
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- jug ears
- jug-eared
Character Decomposition
Related Words (20)
- 1 to recruit
- 2 to provoke
- 3 to beckon
- 4 to incur
- 5 to infect
- 6 contagious
- 7 a move (chess)
- 8 a maneuver
- 9 device
- 10 trick
- 11 to confess
- 1 to call out to
- 2 to greet
- 3 to say hello to
- 4 to inform
- 5 to take care of
- 6 to take care that one does not
- 1 to invite applications for a job
- 2 to recruit
- 1 lit. inviting wealth
- 2 We wish you success and riches (cf idiom 招財進寶|招财进宝[zhāo cái jìn bǎo])
- 1 ear
- 2 handle (archaeology)
- 3 and that is all (Classical Chinese)
Idioms (20)
俯首帖耳
- 1 bowed head and ears glued (idiom); docile and obedient
- 2 at sb's beck and call
充耳不闻
- 1 to block one's ears and not listen (idiom); to turn a deaf ear
如雷贯耳
- 1 lit. like thunder piercing the ear
- 2 a well-known reputation (idiom)
忠言逆耳
- 1 loyal advice jars on the ears (idiom)
抓耳挠腮
- 1 to tweak one's ears and scratch one's cheeks (as an expression of anxiety, delight, frustration etc) (idiom)