风尚 (風尚)
fēng shàng
Pinyin
Definition
风尚 (風尚)
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- current custom
- current way of doing things
Character Decomposition
Idioms (11)
丈二和尚,摸不着头脑
- 1 lit. like a three-meter high monk, you can't rub his head (idiom)
- 2 fig. at a total loss
三个和尚没水喝
- 1 lit. three monks have no water to drink (idiom)
- 2 fig. everybody's business is nobody's business
- 3 (If there is one monk, he will fetch water for himself. If there are two, they will fetch water together. But if there are three or more, none will take it upon himself to fetch water.)
做一天和尚撞一天钟
- 1 lit. as a monk for today, toll today's bell (idiom)
- 2 fig. to do one's job mechanically
- 3 to hold a position passively
和尚打伞,无法无天
- 1 lit. like a monk holding an umbrella — no hair, no sky (idiom) (punning on 髮|发[fà] vs 法[fǎ])
- 2 fig. defying the law and the principles of heaven
- 3 lawless
好奇尚异
- 1 to have a taste for the exotic (idiom)