量腹
liàng fù
Pinyin
Definition
量腹
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- to estimate how much food is required for a meal
Character Decomposition
Idioms (20)
人不可貌相,海水不可斗量
- 1 you can't judge a person by appearance, just as you can't measure the sea with a pint pot (idiom)
以小人之心,度君子之腹
- 1 to gauge the heart of a gentleman with one's own mean measure (idiom)
剖腹藏珠
- 1 lit. cutting one's stomach to hide a pearl (idiom)
- 2 fig. wasting a lot of effort on trivialities
功德无量
- 1 no end of virtuous achievements (idiom); boundless beneficence
口蜜腹剑
- 1 lit. honeyed words, a sword in the belly (idiom); fig. hypocritical and murderous