绣花 (繡花)
xiù huā
Pinyin

Definition

绣花 (繡花)
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xiù huā
  1. to embroider
  2. to do embroidery

Character Decomposition

Related Words (20)

桃花运
táo huā yùn
  1. 1 luck with the ladies
  2. 2 a romance
  3. 3 good luck
烟花
yān huā
  1. 1 fireworks
  2. 2 prostitute (esp. in Yuan theater)
花
Huā
  1. 1 surname Hua
雪花
xuě huā
  1. 1 snowflake
鲜花
xiān huā
  1. 1 flower
  2. 2 fresh flowers
  3. 3 classifier: 朵 duǒ

Idioms (20)

借花献佛
jiè huā xiàn Fó
  1. 1 lit. presenting the Buddha with borrowed flowers (idiom); fig. to win favor or influence using sb else's property
  2. 2 plagiarism
名花有主
míng huā yǒu zhǔ
  1. 1 the girl is already taken (idiom)
天花乱坠
tiān huā luàn zhuì
  1. 1 lit. a deluge of heavenly flowers (idiom)
  2. 2 fig. extravagant embellishments
  3. 3 hype
奇花异卉
qí huā yì huì
  1. 1 exotic flowers and rare herbs (idiom)
奇花异草
qí huā yì cǎo
  1. 1 very rarely seen, unusual (idiom)

Sample Sentences

我看过一段美国女孩子的。长得金发碧眼，挺漂亮的，但是完全是绣花枕头一包草。她竟然说欧洲是一个国家。
wǒ kàn guo yī duàn Měiguó nǚháizi de 。zhǎng de jīnfàbìyǎn ，tǐng piàoliang de ，dànshì wánquán shì xiùhuā zhěntou yī bāo cǎo 。tā jìngrán shuō Ōuzhōu shì yī ge guójiā 。
I saw one with an American girl. She was really beautiful, with golden blond hair and jade blue eyes. But her head was completely empty. Amazingly, she said that Europe is a country.
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缝着绣花鞋面容安详的老人
féng zhe xiùhuāxié miànróng ānxiáng de lǎorén
Making flower embroidered shoes, the contented old people
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