阿鼻
Ā bí
Pinyin
Definition
阿鼻
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- Ceaseless pain (Sanskrit: Avici), one of the Buddhist hells
- fig. hell
- hell on earth
Character Decomposition
Related Words (20)
- 1 abbr. for Afghanistan 阿富汗[Ā fù hàn]
- 1 maternal aunt
- 2 step-mother
- 3 childcare worker
- 4 nursemaid
- 5 woman of similar age to one's parents (term of address used by child)
- 6 classifier: 个 gè
- 1 Amitabha Buddha
- 2 the Buddha of the Western paradise
- 3 may the lord Buddha preserve us!
- 4 merciful Buddha!
- 1 to assail the nostrils
- 2 acrid
- 3 pungent
Idioms (9)
一把眼泪一把鼻涕
- 1 with one's face covered in tears (idiom)
一鼻孔出气
- 1 lit. to breathe through the same nostril (idiom); fig. two people say exactly the same thing (usually derog.)
- 2 to sing from the same hymn sheet
仰人鼻息
- 1 to rely on others for the air one breathes (idiom); to depend on sb's whim for one's living
吴下阿蒙
- 1 General Lü Meng 呂蒙|吕蒙 of the southern state of Wu (idiom); model of self-improvement by diligent study (from unlettered soldier to top strategist of Wu)
横挑鼻子竖挑眼
- 1 to pick on sth incessantly (idiom)
- 2 to criticize right and left