针尾沙锥 (針尾沙錐)
zhēn wěi shā zhuī
Pinyin

Definition

针尾沙锥 (針尾沙錐)
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zhēn wěi shā zhuī
  1. (bird species of China) pin-tailed snipe (Gallinago stenura)

Character Decomposition

Related Words (20)

wěi
  1. 1 tail
  2. 2 remainder
  3. 3 remnant
  4. 4 extremity
  5. 5 sixth of the 28 constellations
  6. 6 classifier for fish
wěi ba
  1. 1 tail
  2. 2 colloquial pr. [yǐ ba]
wěi yá
  1. 1 a year-end dinner for employees
nián wěi
  1. 1 end of the year
Shā
  1. 1 surname Sha

Idioms (20)

一盘散沙
yī pán sǎn shā
  1. 1 lit. like a sheet of loose sand
  2. 2 fig. unable to cooperate (idiom)
含沙射影
hán shā shè yǐng
  1. 1 to attack someone by innuendo (idiom)
  2. 2 to make oblique charges
  3. 3 to make insinuations
  4. 4 to insinuate
吴头楚尾
Wú tóu Chǔ wěi
  1. 1 lit. head in Wu and tail in Chu (idiom); fig. close together
  2. 2 head-to-tail
  3. 3 one thing starts where the other leaves off
宁做鸡头,不做凤尾
nìng zuò jī tóu , bù zuò fèng wěi
  1. 1 lit. would rather be a chicken's head than a phoenix's tail (idiom)
  2. 2 fig. to prefer to be a big fish in a small pond rather than a small fish in a big pond
封沙育林
fēng shā yù lín
  1. 1 to plant trees in order to stabilize sand (idiom)