直呼其名
zhí hū qí míng
Pinyin
Definition
直呼其名
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- to address sb directly by name (idiom)
- to address sb by name without using an honorific title (indicating either familiarity or overfamiliarity)
Character Decomposition
Related Words (20)
- 1 straight (in a straight line)
- 2 continuously
- 3 always
- 4 from the beginning of ... up to ...
- 5 all along
- 1 his
- 2 her
- 3 its
- 4 their
- 5 that
- 6 such
- 7 it (refers to sth preceding it)
- 1 other
- 2 (sth or sb) else
- 3 the rest
- 1 actually
- 2 in fact
- 3 really
- 1 name
- 2 noun (part of speech)
- 3 place (e.g. among winners)
- 4 famous
- 5 classifier for people
Idioms (20)
一呼百应
- 1 a hundred answers to a single call (idiom)
- 2 to respond en masse
一呼百诺
- 1 one command brings a hundred responses (idiom); having hundreds of attendants at one's beck and call
一命呜呼
- 1 to die (idiom)
- 2 to breathe one's last
- 3 to give up the ghost
三缄其口
- 1 (idiom) reluctant to speak about it
- 2 tight-lipped
上下其手
- 1 to raise and lower one's hand (idiom); to signal as conspiratorial hint
- 2 fig. conspiring to defraud