淡尾鹟莺 (淡尾鶲鶯)
dàn wěi wēng yīng
Pinyin
Definition
淡尾鹟莺 (淡尾鶲鶯)
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- (bird species of China) Alström's warbler (Seicercus soror)
Character Decomposition
Related Words (20)
- 1 tail
- 2 remainder
- 3 remnant
- 4 extremity
- 5 sixth of the 28 constellations
- 6 classifier for fish
- 1 tail
- 2 colloquial pr. [yǐ ba]
- 1 flat
- 2 dull
- 3 ordinary
- 4 nothing special
- 1 insipid
- 2 diluted
- 3 weak
- 4 mild
- 5 light in color
- 6 tasteless
- 7 indifferent
- 8 (variant of 氮[dàn]) nitrogen
- 1 calm and collected
- 2 unperturbed
Idioms (20)
君子之交淡如水
- 1 a gentleman's friendship, insipid as water (idiom, from Zhuangzi 莊子|庄子[Zhuāng zǐ])
吴头楚尾
- 1 lit. head in Wu and tail in Chu (idiom); fig. close together
- 2 head-to-tail
- 3 one thing starts where the other leaves off
宁做鸡头,不做凤尾
- 1 lit. would rather be a chicken's head than a phoenix's tail (idiom)
- 2 fig. to prefer to be a big fish in a small pond rather than a small fish in a big pond
尾大不掉
- 1 large tail obstructs action (idiom); bottom heavy
- 2 fig. rendered ineffective by subordinates
平淡无奇
- 1 ordinary and mediocre (idiom); nothing to write home about