西王母
Xī wáng mǔ
Pinyin
Definition
西王母
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- Xi Wangmu, Queen Mother of the West, keeper of the peaches of immortality
- popularly known as 王母娘娘
Character Decomposition
Idioms (20)
中西合璧
- 1 harmonious combination of Chinese and Western elements (idiom)
再生父母
- 1 like a second parent (idiom); one's great benefactor
胜者王侯败者寇
- 1 the winners become princes and marquises; the losers are vilified as bandits (idiom)
- 2 history is written by the victors
各奔东西
- 1 to go separate ways (idiom)
- 2 to part ways with sb
- 3 Taiwan pr. [gè bēn dōng xī]
喝西北风
- 1 lit. drink the northwest wind (idiom); cold and hungry