赛马会 (賽馬會)
Sài mǎ huì
Pinyin
Definition
赛马会 (賽馬會)
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- the Jockey Club, Hong Kong philanthropic organization (and former gentleman's club)
Character Decomposition
Related Words (20)
- 1 to learn
- 2 to master
- 3 institute
- 4 learned society
- 5 (scholarly) association
- 1 can
- 2 to be possible
- 3 to be able to
- 4 will
- 5 to be likely to
- 6 to be sure to
- 7 to assemble
- 8 to meet
- 9 to gather
- 10 to see
- 11 union
- 12 group
- 13 association
- 14 classifier: 个 gè
- 15 a moment (Taiwan pr. for this sense is [huǐ])
Idioms (20)
一言既出,驷马难追
- 1 lit. once said, a team of horses cannot unsay it (idiom); a promise must be kept
一马平川
- 1 flat land one could gallop straight across (idiom); wide expanse of flat country
三个臭皮匠,赛过一个诸葛亮
- 1 lit. three ignorant cobblers add up to a genius (idiom); fig. collective wisdom
- 2 wisdom of the masses exceeds that of any individual
三个臭皮匠,赛过诸葛亮
- 1 lit. three ignorant cobblers add up to a genius (idiom); fig. collective wisdom
- 2 wisdom of the masses exceeds that of any individual
三马同槽
- 1 three horses at the same trough (idiom, alluding to Sima Yi 司馬懿|司马懿[Sī mǎ Yì] and his two sons); conspirators under the same roof