犬戎
Quǎn róng
Pinyin
Definition
犬戎
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- Quanrong, Zhou Dynasty ethnic group of present-day western China
Character Decomposition
Idioms (9)
一人得道,鸡犬升天
- 1 lit. when a man achieves the Dao, his poultry and dogs rise to Heaven (idiom)
- 2 fig. to ride on sb else's success
- 3 Once one man gets a government position, all his cronies get in too
- 4 Once sb has cracked the problem, every Tom, Dick and Harry can do it
兵戎相见
- 1 to meet on the battlefield (idiom)
丧家之犬
- 1 stray dog (idiom)
戎马生涯
- 1 army life (idiom)
- 2 the experience of war
投笔从戎
- 1 to lay down the pen and take up the sword (idiom)
- 2 to join the military (esp. of educated person)