蜡纸 (蠟紙)
là zhǐ
Pinyin
Definition
蜡纸 (蠟紙)
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- wax paper
- stencil paper
Character Decomposition
Idioms (10)
一纸空文
- 1 a worthless piece of paper (idiom)
吹灯拔蜡
- 1 lit. to blow out the lamp and put out the candle (idiom)
- 2 fig. to die
- 3 to bite the dust
- 4 to be over and done with
味同嚼蜡
- 1 tastes as if one is chewing wax (idiom)
- 2 tasteless
- 3 insipid
洛阳纸贵
- 1 lit. paper has become expensive in Luoyang (because everyone is making a copy of a popular story) (idiom)
- 2 fig. (of a product) to sell like hotcakes
纸上谈兵
- 1 lit. military tactics on paper (idiom)
- 2 fig. theoretical discussion that is worse than useless in practice
- 3 armchair strategist
- 4 idle theorizing
- 5 cf Zhao Kuo 趙括|赵括 leading an army of 400,000 to total annihilation at battle of Changping 長平之戰|长平之战 in 260 BC