荔枝
lì zhī
Pinyin
Definition
荔枝
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- litchi or lychee fruit (Litchi chinensis Sonn.)
Character Decomposition
Related Words (20)
- 1 branch
- 2 classifier for sticks, rods, pencils etc
- 1 litchi or lychee fruit (Litchi chinensis Sonn.)
- 1 golden branch, jade leaves (idiom); fig. blue-blooded nobility, esp. imperial kinsmen or peerless beauty
- 1 massage
- 2 snapped-off branch
- 3 sprig
- 4 to snap a twig (i.e. sth that requires very little effort)
- 1 branch and leaf
Idioms (9)
一枝独秀
- 1 lit. only one branch of the tree is thriving (idiom)
- 2 fig. to be in a league of one's own
- 3 outstanding
有枝有叶
- 1 to become bogged down in the details (idiom)
枝节横生
- 1 side issues keep arising (idiom)
横生枝节
- 1 to deliberately complicate an issue (idiom)
节上生枝
- 1 a new branch grows out of a knot (idiom); fig. side issues keep arising
Sample Sentences
还有那个荔枝塞肉,想想就恶心。
There's also those meat-stuffed lychees. I feel sick just thinking about it.
那你尝尝这个,荔枝。
Then have a taste of this: lychee.
荔枝吃起来太麻烦了。有草莓吗?
Lychees are too much trouble to eat. Do you have strawberries?