暗星云 (暗星雲)
àn xīng yún
Pinyin

Definition

暗星云 (暗星雲)
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àn xīng yún
  1. dark nebula (visible as a shadow, absorbing light from behind)
  2. absorption nebula

Character Decomposition

Related Words (20)

Sān xīng
  1. 1 Sanxing or Sanhsing township in Yilan county 宜蘭縣|宜兰县[Yí lán xiàn], Taiwan
  2. 2 Samsung (South Korean electronics company)
míng xīng
  1. 1 star
  2. 2 celebrity
xīng
  1. 1 star
  2. 2 heavenly body
  3. 3 satellite
  4. 4 small amount
xīng zuò
  1. 1 constellation
  2. 2 astrological sign
  3. 3 classifier: 张 zhāng
xīng xing
  1. 1 star in the sky

Idioms (20)

名重识暗
míng zhòng shí àn
  1. 1 of great reputation but shallow in knowledge (idiom)
寥若晨星
liáo ruò chén xīng
  1. 1 rare as morning stars (idiom)
  2. 2 few and far between
  3. 3 sparse
急如星火
jí rú xīng huǒ
  1. 1 lit. as hurried as a shooting star (idiom); requiring immediate action
  2. 2 extremely urgent
明人不做暗事
míng rén bù zuò àn shì
  1. 1 The honest person does nothing underhand (idiom).
  2. 2 fig. Do what you want to do openly and without dissimulation.
明修栈道,暗渡陈仓
míng xiū zhàn dào , àn dù Chén cāng
  1. 1 lit. repair the plank road by day while secretly crossing the Wei River 渭河[Wèi Hé] at Chencang (idiom, refers to a stratagem used by Liu Bang 劉邦|刘邦[Liú Bāng] in 206 BC against Xiang Yu 項羽|项羽[Xiàng Yǔ] of Chu)
  2. 2 fig. to feign one thing while doing another
  3. 3 to cheat under cover of a diversion