栅篱 (柵籬)
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Definition
栅篱 (柵籬)
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- hedge
- fence
Character Decomposition
Idioms (2)
寄人篱下
- 1 to lodge under another person's roof (idiom); to live relying on sb else's charity
羊触藩篱
- 1 lit. billy goat's horns caught in the fence (idiom from Book of Changes 易經|易经); impossible to advance or to retreat
- 2 without any way out of a dilemma
- 3 trapped
- 4 in an impossible situation