柴米油盐酱醋茶 (柴米油鹽醬醋茶)
chái mǐ yóu yán jiàng cù chá
Pinyin
Definition
柴米油盐酱醋茶 (柴米油鹽醬醋茶)
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- lit. firewood, rice, oil, salt, soy, vinegar, and tea
- fig. life's daily necessities
Character Decomposition
Related Words (20)
- 1 to add oil
- 2 to top up with gas
- 3 to refuel
- 4 to accelerate
- 5 to step on the gas
- 6 (fig.) to make an extra effort
- 7 to cheer sb on
- 1 oil
- 2 fat
- 3 grease
- 4 petroleum
- 5 to apply tung oil, paint or varnish
- 6 oily
- 7 greasy
- 8 glib
- 9 cunning
- 1 surname Mi
- 1 small shrimp
- 2 dried, shelled shrimps
Idioms (20)
三茶六饭
- 1 lit. to offer three kinds of tea and six different dishes
- 2 to be extremely considerate towards guests (idiom)
不当家不知柴米贵
- 1 a person who doesn't manage a household would not be aware how expensive it is (idiom)
偷鸡不成蚀把米
- 1 lit. to try to steal a chicken only to end up losing the rice used to lure it (idiom)
- 2 fig. to try to gain an advantage only to end up worse off
- 3 to go for wool and come back shorn
巧妇难为无米之炊
- 1 The cleverest housewife cannot cook without rice (idiom); You won't get anywhere without equipment.
柴门小户
- 1 woodcutter's cottage (idiom); poor person's hovel
- 2 fig. my humble house