驾鹤西去 (駕鶴西去)
jià hè xī qù
Pinyin
Definition
驾鹤西去 (駕鶴西去)
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- lit. to fly on a crane to the Western Paradise
- fig. to pass away (idiom)
Character Decomposition
Related Words (20)
- 1 to go out
- 1 to go
- 2 to go to (a place)
- 3 (of a time etc) last
- 4 just passed
- 5 to send
- 6 to remove
- 7 to get rid of
- 8 to reduce
- 9 to be apart from in space or time
- 10 to die (euphemism)
- 11 to play (a part)
- 12 (when used either before or after a verb) to go in order to do sth
- 13 (after a verb of motion indicates movement away from the speaker)
- 14 (used after certain verbs to indicate detachment or separation)
- 1 east and west
- 1 (in the) past
- 2 former
- 3 previous
- 4 to go over
- 5 to pass by
- 1 to go up
Idioms (20)
中西合璧
- 1 harmonious combination of Chinese and Western elements (idiom)
人去楼空
- 1 the people are gone and the place is empty (idiom)
- 2 the sight of a deserted place brings old friends to mind
- 3 the place is deserted
- 4 the birds have flown
来去无踪
- 1 come without a shadow, leave without a footprint (idiom); to come and leave without a trace
来得容易,去得快
- 1 Easy come, easy go. (idiom)
来无影,去无踪
- 1 lit. come without a shadow, leave without a footprint (idiom); to come and go without a trace