排水渠
pái shuǐ qú
Pinyin

Definition

排水渠
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pái shuǐ qú
  1. drainage

Character Decomposition

Related Words (20)

ān pái
  1. 1 to arrange
  2. 2 to plan
  3. 3 to set up
  4. 4 arrangements
  5. 5 plans
pái
  1. 1 a row
  2. 2 a line
  3. 3 to set in order
  4. 4 to arrange
  5. 5 to line up
  6. 6 to eliminate
  7. 7 to drain
  8. 8 to push open
  9. 9 platoon
  10. 10 raft
  11. 11 classifier for lines, rows etc
pái míng
  1. 1 to rank (1st, 2nd etc)
  2. 2 ranking
pái háng
  1. 1 to rank
  2. 2 ranking
  3. 3 seniority (among siblings)
pái duì
  1. 1 to line up

Idioms (20)

一清如水
yī qīng rú shuǐ
  1. 1 lit. as clear as water (idiom)
  2. 2 fig. (of officials etc) honest and incorruptible
一碗水端平
yī wǎn shuǐ duān píng
  1. 1 lit. to hold a bowl of water level (idiom)
  2. 2 fig. to be impartial
一点水一个泡
yī diǎn shuǐ yī gè pào
  1. 1 honest and trustworthy (idiom)
三个和尚没水喝
sān gè hé shang méi shuǐ hē
  1. 1 lit. three monks have no water to drink (idiom)
  2. 2 fig. everybody's business is nobody's business
  3. 3 (If there is one monk, he will fetch water for himself. If there are two, they will fetch water together. But if there are three or more, none will take it upon himself to fetch water.)
不显山不露水
bù xiǎn shān bù lù shuǐ
  1. 1 lit. to not show the mountain and to not reveal the water (idiom); fig. to hide the key facts