移山倒海
yí shān dǎo hǎi
Pinyin
Definition
移山倒海
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- lit. to move mountains and drain seas
- to transform nature
Character Decomposition
Related Words (20)
- 1 Shanghai municipality, central east China, abbr. to 滬|沪[Hù]
- 1 to fall
- 2 to collapse
- 3 to lie horizontally
- 4 to overthrow
- 5 to fail
- 6 to go bankrupt
- 7 to change (trains or buses)
- 8 to move around
- 9 to resell at a profit
- 1 to count backwards (from 10 down to 0)
- 2 to count down
- 3 from the bottom (lines on a page)
- 4 from the back (rows of seats)
- 1 to have bad luck
- 2 to be out of luck
- 1 bangs
- 2 fringe (hair)
Idioms (20)
一山不容二虎
- 1 lit. the mountain can't have two tigers (idiom)
- 2 fig. this town ain't big enough for the two of us
- 3 (of two rivals) to be fiercely competitive
不识泰山
- 1 can't recognize Mt Taishan (idiom); fig. not to recognize a famous person
不显山不露水
- 1 lit. to not show the mountain and to not reveal the water (idiom); fig. to hide the key facts
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