甜菜
tián cài
Pinyin
Definition
甜菜
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- beet
- beetroot
Character Decomposition
Idioms (13)
嘴甜心苦
- 1 sweet mouth, bitter heart (idiom); insincere flattery
小菜一碟
- 1 a small appetizer
- 2 a piece of cake; very easy (idiom)
强扭的瓜不甜
- 1 lit. if you have to use force to break a melon off the vine, it won't taste sweet (because it's only when the melon is ripe that it can be removed with just a slight twist) (idiom)
- 2 fig. if sth is not meant to be, it's no use trying to force it to happen
忆苦思甜
- 1 to view one's past as miserable and one's present as happy (idiom)
捡到篮里就是菜
- 1 all is grist that comes to the mill (idiom)