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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- (bird species of China) pin-tailed snipe (Gallinago stenura)
Character Decomposition
Idioms (20)
一盘散沙
- 1 lit. like a sheet of loose sand
- 2 fig. unable to cooperate (idiom)
含沙射影
- 1 to attack someone by innuendo (idiom)
- 2 to make oblique charges
- 3 to make insinuations
- 4 to insinuate
吴头楚尾
- 1 lit. head in Wu and tail in Chu (idiom); fig. close together
- 2 head-to-tail
- 3 one thing starts where the other leaves off
宁做鸡头,不做凤尾
- 1 lit. would rather be a chicken's head than a phoenix's tail (idiom)
- 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
- 1 to plant trees in order to stabilize sand (idiom)