绿营 (綠營)
Lu:4 yíng
Pinyin
Definition
绿营 (綠營)
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- Green Standard Army, standing infantry during Qing dynasty, originally formed from Ming and other Chinese army units
Character Decomposition
Idioms (15)
官私合营
- 1 public and private interests working together (idiom)
惨淡经营
- 1 to manage by painstaking effort (idiom)
灯红酒绿
- 1 lanterns red, wine green (idiom); feasting and pleasure-seeking
- 2 debauched and corrupt environment
牡丹虽好,全仗绿叶扶
- 1 Although the peony is beautiful, it depends entirely on help from the green leaves (idiom). However brilliant you may be, you can't do anything without support from others.
牡丹虽好,全仗绿叶扶持
- 1 Although the peony is beautiful, it depends entirely on help from the green leaves (idiom). However brilliant you may be, you can't do anything without support from others.