矛纹草鹛 (矛紋草鶥)
máo wén cǎo méi
Pinyin

Definition

矛纹草鹛 (矛紋草鶥)
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máo wén cǎo méi
  1. (bird species of China) Chinese babax (Babax lanceolatus)

Character Decomposition

Related Words (20)

pí cǎo
  1. 1 fur clothing
máo dùn
  1. 1 contradiction
  2. 2 classifier: 个 gè
  3. 3 conflicting views
  4. 4 contradictory
cǎo
  1. 1 variant: 草 cǎo
cǎo gēn
  1. 1 grass roots (lit. and fig.)
cǎo méi
  1. 1 strawberry
  2. 2 classifier: 颗 kē
  3. 3 (Tw) hickey
  4. 4 love bite

Idioms (20)

人生一世,草木一春
rén shēng yī shì , cǎo mù yī chūn
  1. 1 Man has but one life, grass but one spring (idiom). fig. the brevity of human existence
以子之矛,攻子之盾
yǐ zǐ zhī máo , gōng zǐ zhī dùn
  1. 1 lit. use sb's spear to attack his shield (idiom, derived from Han Feizi 韓非子|韩非子); turning a weapon against its owner
  2. 2 fig. to attack an opponent using his own devices
  3. 3 hoist with his own petard
兔子不吃窝边草
tù zi bù chī wō biān cǎo
  1. 1 A rabbit doesn't eat the grass by its own burrow (idiom); One shouldn't do anything to harm one's neighbors.
兵马未动,粮草先行
bīng mǎ wèi dòng , liáng cǎo xiān xíng
  1. 1 before the troops move, fodder and provisions go first (idiom); logistics comes before military maneuvers
  2. 2 an army marches on its stomach
剪草除根
jiǎn cǎo chú gēn
  1. 1 lit. cut grass and pull out roots (idiom); fig. to destroy root and branch
  2. 2 to eradicate