橡皮筋
xiàng pí jīn
Pinyin

Definition

橡皮筋
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xiàng pí jīn
  1. rubber band

Character Decomposition

Related Words (20)

抽筋
chōu jīn
  1. 1 cramp
  2. 2 charley horse
  3. 3 to pull a tendon
皮
Pí
  1. 1 surname Pi
皮肤
pí fū
  1. 1 skin
  2. 2 classifier: 层 céng
  3. 3 classifier: 块 kuài
上皮
shàng pí
  1. 1 epithelium
俏皮
qiào pi
  1. 1 smart
  2. 2 charming
  3. 3 attractive
  4. 4 witty
  5. 5 facetious
  6. 6 ironic

Idioms (20)

三个臭皮匠，合成一个诸葛亮
sān gè chòu pí jiang , hé chéng yī gè Zhū gě Liàng
  1. 1 lit. three ignorant cobblers add up to a genius (idiom); fig. collective wisdom
三个臭皮匠，赛过一个诸葛亮
sān gè chòu pí jiang , sài guò yī gè Zhū gě Liàng
  1. 1 lit. three ignorant cobblers add up to a genius (idiom); fig. collective wisdom
  2. 2 wisdom of the masses exceeds that of any individual
三个臭皮匠，赛过诸葛亮
sān gè chòu pí jiang , sài guò Zhū gě Liàng
  1. 1 lit. three ignorant cobblers add up to a genius (idiom); fig. collective wisdom
  2. 2 wisdom of the masses exceeds that of any individual
三个臭皮匠，顶个诸葛亮
sān gè chòu pí jiang , dǐng gè Zhū gě Liàng
  1. 1 lit. three ignorant cobblers add up to a genius (idiom); fig. collective wisdom
  2. 2 wisdom of the masses exceeds that of any individual
人心隔肚皮
rén xīn gé dù pí
  1. 1 there is no knowing what is in a man's heart (idiom)

Sample Sentences

我们小时候条件差，玩具就这些，不分男女的。有的人连玩具都没有。只能做游戏，不是跳橡皮筋，就是丢手帕。
wǒmen xiǎoshíhou tiáojiàn chà ，wánjù jiù zhèxiē ，bùfēn nánnǚ de 。yǒude rén lián wánjù dōu méiyǒu 。zhǐnéng zuò yóuxì ，bùshì tiào xiàngpíjīn ，jiùshì diū shǒupà 。
When we were little we didn't have much. Those were the toys we had, so we didn't differentiate between boys' and girls' toys. Some people didn't even have any toys. They could just play games; either the ``big rubber band" or ``drop the handkerchief."
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