正中下怀 (正中下懷)
zhèng zhòng xià huái
Pinyin
Definition
正中下怀 (正中下懷)
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- exactly what one wants
Character Decomposition
Related Words (20)
- 1 (used after a verb) give it a go
- 2 to do (sth for a bit to give it a try)
- 3 one time
- 4 once
- 5 in a while
- 6 all of a sudden
- 7 all at once
- 1 down
- 2 downwards
- 3 below
- 4 lower
- 5 later
- 6 next (week etc)
- 7 second (of two parts)
- 8 to decline
- 9 to go down
- 10 to arrive at (a decision, conclusion etc)
- 11 measure word to show the frequency of an action
- 1 to come down
- 2 (completed action marker)
- 3 (after verb of motion, indicates motion down and towards us, also fig.)
- 4 (indicates continuation from the past towards us)
- 5 to be harvested (of crops)
- 6 to be over (of a period of time)
- 7 to go among the masses (said of leaders)
- 1 to download
- 2 also pr. [xià zài]
Idioms (20)
一矢中的
- 1 to hit the target with a single shot
- 2 to say something spot on (idiom)
一语中的
- 1 to hit the mark with a comment (idiom)
- 2 to say sth spot on
三下两下
- 1 quickly and effortlessly (idiom)
上下其手
- 1 to raise and lower one's hand (idiom); to signal as conspiratorial hint
- 2 fig. conspiring to defraud
上有天堂,下有苏杭
- 1 lit. there is heaven above, and there is 蘇杭|苏杭[Sū Háng] below (idiom)
- 2 fig. the beauty and affluence of Suzhou and Hangzhou is comparable with heaven