灶王爷 (灶王爺)
Zào wáng yé
Pinyin
Definition
灶王爷 (灶王爺)
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- Zaoshen, the god of the kitchen
- also written 灶神
Character Decomposition
Idioms (13)
胜者王侯败者寇
- 1 the winners become princes and marquises; the losers are vilified as bandits (idiom)
- 2 history is written by the victors
另起炉灶
- 1 lit. to set up a separate kitchen (idiom); to start from scratch
- 2 back to square one
- 3 to start of on a new path
大水冲了龙王庙
- 1 lit. surging waters flooded the Dragon King temple (idiom)
- 2 fig. to fail to recognize a familiar person
- 3 a dispute between close people who fail to recognize each other
成则为王,败则为寇
- 1 lit. called a king if successful, called a bandit if defeated (idiom)
- 2 fig. losers are always in the wrong
擒贼擒王
- 1 to defeat the enemy by capturing their chief (idiom)