脊梁
jǐ liáng
Pinyin
Definition
脊梁
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- backbone
- spine
- Taiwan pr. [jǐ liang]
脊梁
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- (coll.) back (of a human or other vertebrate)
Character Decomposition
Related Words (20)
- 1 Liang Dynasty (502-557)
- 2 Later Liang Dynasty (907-923)
- 3 surname Liang
- 1 Fish Leong (1978-), Malaysian pop singer
- 2 also Leong Chui Peng or Jasmine Leong
- 1 bridge (lit. and fig.)
- 1 Lüliang prefecture-level city in Shanxi 山西
Idioms (8)
上梁不正下梁歪
- 1 lit. If the upper beam is not straight, the lower beam will be crooked (idiom); fig. subordinates imitate their superiors' vices
偷梁换柱
- 1 lit. to steal a rafter and replace it with a column
- 2 to replace the original with a fake
- 3 to perpetrate a fraud (idiom)
悬梁刺股
- 1 to study assiduously and tirelessly (idiom)
- 2 頭懸梁,錐刺股|头悬梁,锥刺股[tóu xuán liáng
- 3 zhuī cì gǔ]
绕梁三日
- 1 reverberates around the rafters for three days (idiom); fig. sonorous and resounding (esp. of singing voice)
蹿房越脊
- 1 lit. to leap the house and cross the roofridge (idiom); dashing over rooftops (of robbers and pursuing knight-errant 俠客|侠客 in fiction)