石沉大海
shí chén dà hǎi
Pinyin
Definition
石沉大海
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- lit. to throw a stone and see it sink without trace in the sea (idiom)
- fig. to elicit no response
Character Decomposition
Related Words (20)
- 1 Shanghai municipality, central east China, abbr. to 滬|沪[Hù]
- 1 big
- 2 huge
- 3 large
- 4 major
- 5 great
- 6 wide
- 7 deep
- 8 older (than)
- 9 oldest
- 10 eldest
- 11 greatly
- 12 very much
- 13 (dialect) father
- 14 father's elder or younger brother
- 1 very auspicious
- 2 extremely lucky
- 1 the Great Learning, one of the Four Books 四書|四书[Sì shū] in Confucianism
- 1 everyone
- 2 influential family
- 3 great expert
Idioms (20)
一石二鸟
- 1 to kill two birds with one stone (idiom)
不识大体
- 1 to fail to see the larger issue (idiom)
- 2 to fail to grasp the big picture
久仰大名
- 1 I have been looking forward to meeting you for a long time (idiom)
人不可貌相,海水不可斗量
- 1 you can't judge a person by appearance, just as you can't measure the sea with a pint pot (idiom)
他山之石可以攻玉
- 1 lit. the other mountain's stone can polish jade (idiom); to improve oneself by accepting criticism from outside
- 2 to borrow talent from abroad to develop the nation effectively