沙漏
shā lòu
Pinyin

Definition

沙漏
 - 
shā lòu
  1. hourglass
  2. sand filter

Character Decomposition

Related Words (20)

Shā
  1. 1 surname Sha
shā chǎng
  1. 1 sandpit
  2. 2 battleground
  3. 3 battlefield
shā zi
  1. 1 sand
  2. 2 grit
  3. 3 classifier: 粒 lì
  4. 4 classifier: 把 bǎ
shā lā
  1. 1 salad (loanword)
shā mò
  1. 1 desert
  2. 2 classifier: 个 gè

Idioms (20)

一盘散沙
yī pán sǎn shā
  1. 1 lit. like a sheet of loose sand
  2. 2 fig. unable to cooperate (idiom)
含沙射影
hán shā shè yǐng
  1. 1 to attack someone by innuendo (idiom)
  2. 2 to make oblique charges
  3. 3 to make insinuations
  4. 4 to insinuate
天机不可泄漏
tiān jī bù kě xiè lòu
  1. 1 lit. mysteries of heaven must not be revealed (idiom); must not be revealed
  2. 2 I am not at liberty to inform you.
天网恢恢,疏而不漏
tiān wǎng huī huī , shū ér bù lòu
  1. 1 lit. heaven's net has wide meshes, but nothing escapes it (idiom, from Laozi 73)
  2. 2 fig. the way of Heaven is fair, but the guilty will not escape
  3. 3 you can't run from the long arm of the law
封沙育林
fēng shā yù lín
  1. 1 to plant trees in order to stabilize sand (idiom)