破土
pò tǔ
Pinyin
Definition
破土
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- to break ground
- to start digging
- to plough
- to break through the ground (of seedling)
- fig. the start of a building project
Character Decomposition
Related Words (20)
- 1 Tu (ethnic group)
- 2 surname Tu
- 1 to break
- 2 to smash
- 1 broken
- 2 damaged
- 3 worn out
- 4 lousy
- 5 rotten
- 6 to break, split or cleave
- 7 to get rid of
- 8 to destroy
- 9 to break with
- 10 to defeat
- 11 to capture (a city etc)
- 12 to expose the truth of
Idioms (20)
一语道破
- 1 one word says it all (idiom)
- 2 to hit the nail on the head
- 3 to be pithy and correct
不是鱼死就是网破
- 1 lit. either the fish dies or the net gets torn (idiom)
- 2 fig. it's a life-and-death struggle
- 3 it's either him or me
乘风破浪
- 1 to brave the wind and the billows (idiom); to have high ambitions
入土为安
- 1 buried and at rest (idiom); Resquiescat in pacem (RIP)
兵来将挡,水来土掩
- 1 counter soldiers with arms, water with an earth weir (idiom); different situations call for different action
- 2 to adopt measures appropriate to the actual situation