象限
xiàng xiàn
Pinyin
Definition
象限
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- quadrant (in coordinate geometry)
Character Decomposition
Idioms (12)
人心不足蛇吞象
- 1 a man who is never content is like a snake trying to swallow an elephant (idiom)
合眼摸象
- 1 to touch an elephant with closed eyes (idiom); to proceed blindly
大限临头
- 1 facing the end (idiom); at the end of one's life
- 2 with one foot in the grave
户限为穿
- 1 an endless stream of visitors (idiom)
狗嘴里吐不出象牙
- 1 no ivory comes from the mouth of a dog (idiom)
- 2 no good words are to be expected from a scoundrel