lit. a dragon's scale from the east and a dragon's claw from the west; odds and ends (idiom)
trad. 東鱗西爪
Also written 東鱗西爪【dōng lín xī zhǎo】
Characters in this word
4东
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surname Dong
- Pinyin
- Dōng
- Traditional
- 東
- Strokes
- 5
- Frequency
- 5663 of 2500
鳞
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scales (of fish, snakes etc)
- Pinyin
- lín
- Traditional
- 鱗
- Strokes
- 20
西
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the West, abbr. for Spain 西班牙[Xi1 ban1 ya2], Spanish
- Pinyin
- Xī
- Strokes
- 6
- Frequency
- 2156 of 2500
爪
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foot of a bird or animal, paw, claws, talons
- Pinyin
- zhǎo
- Strokes
- 4
- Frequency
- 18691 of 2500