池田
Chí tián
Pinyin
Definition
池田
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- Ikeda (Japanese surname)
Character Decomposition
Idioms (10)
城门失火,殃及池鱼
- 1 a fire in the city gates is also a calamity for the fish in the moat (idiom); the bystander will also suffer
- 2 fig. you can't escape responsibility for your actions
- 3 ask not for whom the bell tolls - it tolls for thee
求田问舍
- 1 lit. to be interested exclusively in the acquisition of estate (idiom)
- 2 fig. to have no lofty aspirations in life
渤澥桑田
- 1 lit. blue seas where once was mulberry fields (idiom, from 史記|史记[Shǐ jì], Record of the Grand Historian); time brings great changes
- 2 life's vicissitudes
沧海桑田
- 1 lit. the blue sea turned into mulberry fields (idiom)
- 2 fig. the transformations of the world
瓜田不纳履,李下不整冠
- 1 lit. don't tie your shoelaces in a melon patch, and don't adjust your hat under a plum tree (idiom)
- 2 fig. don't do anything that might arouse suspicion
- 3 innocent acts may be misconstrued