洋槐
yáng huái
Pinyin
Definition
洋槐
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- black locust tree (Robinia pseudoacacia)
Character Decomposition
Idioms (12)
喜气洋洋
- 1 full of joy (idiom); jubilation
土洋结合
- 1 combining native and foreign methods (idiom); sophisticated and many-sided
崇洋媚外
- 1 to revere everything foreign and pander to overseas powers (idiom); blind worship of foreign goods and ideas
指桑骂槐
- 1 lit. to point at the mulberry tree and curse the locust tree
- 2 fig. to scold sb indirectly
- 3 to make oblique accusations (idiom)
望洋兴叹
- 1 lit. to gaze at the ocean and lament one's inadequacy (idiom)
- 2 fig. to feel powerless and incompetent (to perform a task)