雕梁画栋 (雕梁畫棟)
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Pinyin
Definition
雕梁画栋 (雕梁畫棟)
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- richly ornamented (building)
Character Decomposition
Related Words (20)
- 1 Liang Dynasty (502-557)
- 2 Later Liang Dynasty (907-923)
- 3 surname Liang
- 1 Fish Leong (1978-), Malaysian pop singer
- 2 also Leong Chui Peng or Jasmine Leong
- 1 bridge (lit. and fig.)
- 1 The Return of the Condor Heroes (classic wuxia martial arts TV films of 1998 and 2006 based on novel by Jinyong 金庸)
- 2 variant: 神雕侠侣
- 1 to carve
- 2 to engrave
- 3 carving
Idioms (10)
一箭双雕
- 1 lit. one arrow, two golden eagles (idiom)
- 2 to kill two birds with one stone
上梁不正下梁歪
- 1 lit. If the upper beam is not straight, the lower beam will be crooked (idiom); fig. subordinates imitate their superiors' vices
偷梁换柱
- 1 lit. to steal a rafter and replace it with a column
- 2 to replace the original with a fake
- 3 to perpetrate a fraud (idiom)
悬梁刺股
- 1 to study assiduously and tirelessly (idiom)
- 2 頭懸梁,錐刺股|头悬梁,锥刺股[tóu xuán liáng
- 3 zhuī cì gǔ]
精雕细刻
- 1 lit. fine sculpting (idiom); fig. to work with extreme care and precision