碧瓦
bì wǎ
Pinyin
Definition
碧瓦
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- green
- glazed tile
Character Decomposition
Idioms (11)
三天不打,上房揭瓦
- 1 three days without a beating, and a child will scale the roof to rip the tiles (idiom)
- 2 spare the rod, spoil the child
各人自扫门前雪,莫管他家瓦上霜
- 1 sweep the snow from your own door step, don't worry about the frost on your neighbor's roof (idiom)
宁为玉碎,不为瓦全
- 1 Better broken jade than intact tile.
- 2 Death is preferable to dishonor. (idiom)
添砖加瓦
- 1 lit. contribute bricks and tiles for a building (idiom)
- 2 fig. to do one's bit to help
碧海青天
- 1 green sea, blue sky (idiom); sea and sky merge in one shade
- 2 loneliness of faithful widow