萧条 (蕭條)
xiāo tiáo
Pinyin

Definition

萧条 (蕭條)
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xiāo tiáo
  1. bleak
  2. desolate
  3. (economic) depression or slump

Character Decomposition

Related Words (20)

tiáo
  1. 1 strip
  2. 2 item
  3. 3 article
  4. 4 clause (of law or treaty)
  5. 5 classifier for long thin things (ribbon, river, road, trousers etc)
tiáo jiàn
  1. 1 condition
  2. 2 circumstances
  3. 3 term
  4. 4 factor
  5. 5 requirement
  6. 6 prerequisite
  7. 7 qualification
  8. 8 classifier: 个 gè
xìn tiáo
  1. 1 creed
  2. 2 article of faith
bàn tiáo mìng
  1. 1 half a life
  2. 2 only half alive
  3. 3 barely alive
  4. 4 (scared, beaten etc) half to death
zì tiáo
  1. 1 brief note

Idioms (13)

一条绳上的蚂蚱
yī tiáo shéng shàng de mà zha
  1. 1 lit. grasshoppers tied together with a piece of string (idiom)
  2. 2 fig. people who are in it together for better or worse
  3. 3 people who will sink or swim together
一条路走到黑
yī tiáo lù zǒu dào hēi
  1. 1 lit. to follow one road until dark (idiom)
  2. 2 fig. to stick to one's ways
  3. 3 to cling to one's course
井井有条
jǐng jǐng yǒu tiáo
  1. 1 everything clear and orderly (idiom); neat and tidy
多个朋友多条路
duō gè péng yǒu duō tiáo lù
  1. 1 the more friends you have, the more options you have in life (idiom)
成也萧何,败也萧何
chéng yě Xiāo Hé , bài yě Xiāo Hé
  1. 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. 2 fig. a situation where one's success and failure are both due to the same factor