破土
pò tǔ
Pinyin

Definition

破土
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pò tǔ
  1. to break ground
  2. to start digging
  3. to plough
  4. to break through the ground (of seedling)
  5. fig. the start of a building project

Character Decomposition

Related Words (20)

  1. 1 Tu (ethnic group)
  2. 2 surname Tu
tǔ dì
  1. 1 land
  2. 2 soil
  3. 3 territory
  4. 4 classifier: 片 piàn
  5. 5 classifier: 块 kuài
tǔ dòu
  1. 1 potato
  2. 2 classifier: 个 gè
  3. 3 (Tw) peanut
  4. 4 classifier: 颗 kē
dǎ pò
  1. 1 to break
  2. 2 to smash
  1. 1 broken
  2. 2 damaged
  3. 3 worn out
  4. 4 lousy
  5. 5 rotten
  6. 6 to break, split or cleave
  7. 7 to get rid of
  8. 8 to destroy
  9. 9 to break with
  10. 10 to defeat
  11. 11 to capture (a city etc)
  12. 12 to expose the truth of

Idioms (20)

一语道破
yī yǔ dào pò
  1. 1 one word says it all (idiom)
  2. 2 to hit the nail on the head
  3. 3 to be pithy and correct
不是鱼死就是网破
bù shì yú sǐ jiù shì wǎng pò
  1. 1 lit. either the fish dies or the net gets torn (idiom)
  2. 2 fig. it's a life-and-death struggle
  3. 3 it's either him or me
乘风破浪
chéng fēng pò làng
  1. 1 to brave the wind and the billows (idiom); to have high ambitions
入土为安
rù tǔ wéi ān
  1. 1 buried and at rest (idiom); Resquiescat in pacem (RIP)
兵来将挡,水来土掩
bīng lái jiàng dǎng , shuǐ lái tǔ yǎn
  1. 1 counter soldiers with arms, water with an earth weir (idiom); different situations call for different action
  2. 2 to adopt measures appropriate to the actual situation