立竿见影 (立竿見影)
lì gān jiàn yǐng
Pinyin
Definition
立竿见影 (立竿見影)
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- lit. set up a pole and see the shadow (idiom); fig. instant effect
- quick results
Character Decomposition
Related Words (20)
- 1 influence
- 2 effect
- 3 to influence
- 4 to affect (usually adversely)
- 5 to disturb
- 6 classifier: 股 gǔ
- 1 influence
- 2 impact
- 1 to take a photograph
- 2 photography
- 3 to shoot (a movie)
- 1 independent
- 2 independence
- 3 to stand alone
- 1 forthwith
- 2 immediate
- 3 prompt
- 4 promptly
- 5 straightway
- 6 thereupon
- 7 at once
Idioms (20)
三十而立
- 1 thirty years old and therefore independent (idiom, from Confucius)
来无影,去无踪
- 1 lit. come without a shadow, leave without a footprint (idiom); to come and go without a trace
势不两立
- 1 the two cannot exist together (idiom); irreconcilable differences
- 2 incompatible standpoints
化为泡影
- 1 to come to nothing (idiom)
又想当婊子又想立牌坊
- 1 lit. to lead the life of a whore but still want a monument put up to one's chastity (idiom)
- 2 fig. to have bad intentions but still want a good reputation
- 3 to want to have one's cake and eat it too