故纸堆
gù zhǐ duī
Pinyin

Definition

故纸堆
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gù zhǐ duī
  1. a pile of old books

Character Decomposition

Related Words (20)

堆
duī
  1. 1 to pile up
  2. 2 to heap up
  3. 3 a mass
  4. 4 pile
  5. 5 heap
  6. 6 stack
  7. 7 large amount
故事
gù shì
  1. 1 old practice
  2. 2 CL:個|个[gè]
一见如故
yī jiàn rú gù
  1. 1 familiarity at first sight
世故
shì gù
  1. 1 the ways of the world
事故
shì gù
  1. 1 accident
  2. 2 CL:樁|桩[zhuāng],起[qǐ],次[cì]
堆满
duī mǎn
  1. 1 to pile up
堆积
duī jī
  1. 1 to pile up
  2. 2 to heap
  3. 3 accumulation
如故
rú gù
  1. 1 as before
  2. 2 as usual
  3. 3 (to be) like old friends
扎堆
zhā duī
  1. 1 to gather together
故
gù
  1. 1 happening
  2. 2 instance
  3. 3 reason
  4. 4 cause
  5. 5 intentional
  6. 6 former
  7. 7 old
  8. 8 friend
  9. 9 therefore
  10. 10 hence
  11. 11 (of people) to die, dead
故人
gù rén
  1. 1 old friend
  2. 2 the deceased
故作
gù zuò
  1. 1 to pretend
  2. 2 to feign
故地
gù dì
  1. 1 once familiar places
  2. 2 former haunts
故宫
Gù gōng
  1. 1 the Forbidden City
  2. 2 abbr. for 故宮博物院|故宫博物院[Gù gōng Bó wù yuàn]
故居
gù jū
  1. 1 former residence
故意
gù yì
  1. 1 deliberately
  2. 2 on purpose
故乡
gù xiāng
  1. 1 home
  2. 2 homeland
  3. 3 native place
  4. 4 CL:個|个[gè]
故障
gù zhàng
  1. 1 malfunction
  2. 2 breakdown
  3. 3 defect
  4. 4 shortcoming
  5. 5 fault
  6. 6 failure
  7. 7 impediment
  8. 8 error
  9. 9 bug (in software)
无缘无故
wú yuán wú gù
  1. 1 no cause, no reason (idiom); completely uncalled for
缘故
yuán gù
  1. 1 reason
  2. 2 cause

Idioms (20)

一改故辙
yī gǎi gù zhé
  1. 1 complete change from the old rut (idiom); dramatic change of direction
  2. 2 a volte-face
  3. 3 to change old practices
他乡遇故知
tā xiāng yù gù zhī
  1. 1 meeting an old friend in a foreign place (idiom)
依然如故
yī rán rú gù
  1. 1 back to where we were (idiom); absolutely no improvement
  2. 2 Things haven't changed at all.
依然故我
yī rán gù wǒ
  1. 1 to be one's old self (idiom)
  2. 2 to be unchanged
  3. 3 (derog.) to be stuck in one's ways
吐故纳新
tǔ gù nà xīn
  1. 1 lit. to breathe out stale air and breathe in fresh (idiom, from Zhuangzi 庄子); fig. to get rid of the old and bring in the new
堆案盈几
duī àn yíng jī
  1. 1 lit. piles of work and papers (idiom); fig. accumulated backlog of work
堆积如山
duī jī rú shān
  1. 1 to pile up like a mountain (idiom)
  2. 2 a mountain of (paperwork etc)
  3. 3 a large number of sth
攀亲道故
pān qīn dào gù
  1. 1 to use claims to kinship or friendship to climb socially (idiom)
故地重游
gù dì chóng yóu
  1. 1 to revisit old haunts (idiom); down memory lane
故步自封
gù bù zì fēng
  1. 1 stuck in the old ways (idiom); refusing to acknowledge new ideas
  2. 2 stagnating and conservative
明知故犯
míng zhī gù fàn
  1. 1 deliberate violation (idiom); intentional crime
温故知新
wēn gù zhī xīn
  1. 1 to review the old and know the new (idiom, from the Analects)
  2. 2 to recall the past to understand the future
温故而知新
wēn gù ér zhī xīn
  1. 1 to review the old and know the new (idiom, from the Analects)
  2. 2 to recall the past to understand the future
无缘无故
wú yuán wú gù
  1. 1 no cause, no reason (idiom); completely uncalled for
狂奴故态
kuáng nú gù tài
  1. 1 to be set in one's ways (idiom)
羌无故实
qiāng wú gù shí
  1. 1 to have no basis in fact (idiom)
老于世故
lǎo yú shì gù
  1. 1 experienced in the ways of the world (idiom); worldly-wise
  2. 2 sophisticated
蹈常袭故
dǎo cháng xí gù
  1. 1 follow the same old path (idiom); stuck in a rut
  2. 2 always the same routine
钻故纸堆
zuān gù zhǐ duī
  1. 1 to dig into piles of outdated writings (idiom); to study old books and papers
非亲非故
fēi qīn fēi gù
  1. 1 lit. neither a relative nor a friend (idiom)
  2. 2 fig. unrelated to one another in any way

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