荔枝核
lì zhī hé
Pinyin

Definition

荔枝核
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lì zhī hé
  1. seeds of litchi or lychee (in TCM)

Character Decomposition

Related Words (20)

zhī
  1. 1 branch
  2. 2 classifier for sticks, rods, pencils etc
  1. 1 pit
  2. 2 stone
  3. 3 nucleus
  4. 4 nuclear
  5. 5 to examine
  6. 6 to check
  7. 7 to verify
hé xīn
  1. 1 core
  2. 2 nucleus
hé tao
  1. 1 walnut
  2. 2 classifier: 个 gè
  3. 3 classifier: 棵 kē
lì zhī
  1. 1 litchi or lychee fruit (Litchi chinensis Sonn.)

Idioms (9)

一枝独秀
yī zhī dú xiù
  1. 1 lit. only one branch of the tree is thriving (idiom)
  2. 2 fig. to be in a league of one's own
  3. 3 outstanding
有枝有叶
yǒu zhī yǒu yè
  1. 1 to become bogged down in the details (idiom)
枝节横生
zhī jié héng shēng
  1. 1 side issues keep arising (idiom)
横生枝节
héng shēng zhī jié
  1. 1 to deliberately complicate an issue (idiom)
节上生枝
jié shàng shēng zhī
  1. 1 a new branch grows out of a knot (idiom); fig. side issues keep arising