柔佛海峡 (柔佛海峽)
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Pinyin
Definition
柔佛海峡 (柔佛海峽)
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- Straits of Johor (between Malaysia and Singapore)
Character Decomposition
Idioms (20)
不看僧面看佛面
- 1 lit. not for the monk's sake but for the Buddha's sake (idiom)
- 2 fig. (to do sth for sb) out of deference to sb else
人不可貌相,海水不可斗量
- 1 you can't judge a person by appearance, just as you can't measure the sea with a pint pot (idiom)
以柔克刚
- 1 to use softness to conquer strength (idiom)
佛口蛇心
- 1 words of a Buddha, heart of a snake (idiom); two-faced
- 2 malicious and duplicitous
侯门似海
- 1 lit. the gate of a noble house is like the sea
- 2 there is a wide gap between the nobility and the common people (idiom)