柴胡
chái hú
Pinyin
Definition
柴胡
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- Chinese thorowax (Bupleurum chinense)
- root of Chinese thorowax (used in TCM)
Character Decomposition
Idioms (20)
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)
柴门小户
- 1 woodcutter's cottage (idiom); poor person's hovel
- 2 fig. my humble house
烈火干柴
- 1 lit. intense fire to dry wood (idiom); inferno in a woodpile
- 2 fig. consuming passion between lovers
留得青山在,不怕没柴烧
- 1 While the green hills last, there'll be wood to burn (idiom). Where there's life there's hope.
众人拾柴火焰高
- 1 when everybody gathers fuel, the flames are higher (idiom)
- 2 the more people, the more strength