萧条 (蕭條)
xiāo tiáo
Pinyin
Definition
萧条 (蕭條)
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- bleak
- desolate
- (economic) depression or slump
Character Decomposition
Related Words (20)
- 1 strip
- 2 item
- 3 article
- 4 clause (of law or treaty)
- 5 classifier for long thin things (ribbon, river, road, trousers etc)
- 1 condition
- 2 circumstances
- 3 term
- 4 factor
- 5 requirement
- 6 prerequisite
- 7 qualification
- 8 classifier: 个 gè
- 1 creed
- 2 article of faith
- 1 half a life
- 2 only half alive
- 3 barely alive
- 4 (scared, beaten etc) half to death
- 1 brief note
Idioms (13)
一条绳上的蚂蚱
- 1 lit. grasshoppers tied together with a piece of string (idiom)
- 2 fig. people who are in it together for better or worse
- 3 people who will sink or swim together
一条路走到黑
- 1 lit. to follow one road until dark (idiom)
- 2 fig. to stick to one's ways
- 3 to cling to one's course
井井有条
- 1 everything clear and orderly (idiom); neat and tidy
多个朋友多条路
- 1 the more friends you have, the more options you have in life (idiom)
成也萧何,败也萧何
- 1 lit. raised up by Xiao He, cast down by Xiao He (idiom), alluding to Han Xin 韓信|韩信[Hán Xìn] being made Grand General 大將軍|大将军[dà jiāng jūn]
- 2 fig. a situation where one's success and failure are both due to the same factor