lit. to strike a stone with egg (idiom); to attempt the impossible; to invite disaster by overreaching oneself
trad. 以卵擊石
Also written 以卵擊石【yǐ luǎn jī shí】
Characters in this word
4以
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old variant of 以[yi3]
- Pinyin
- yǐ
- Traditional
- 㕥
- Strokes
- 4
- Frequency
- 367 of 2500
卵
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egg; ovum; spawn, (coll.) testicles, (old) penis, (expletive) fucking
- Pinyin
- luǎn
- Strokes
- 7
- Frequency
- 20035 of 2500
击
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to hit, to strike, to break, Taiwan pr. [ji2]
- Pinyin
- jī
- Traditional
- 擊
- Strokes
- 5
- Frequency
- 20721 of 2500
石
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surname Shi, abbr. for Shijiazhuang 石家莊|石家庄[Shi2 jia1 zhuang1], the capital of Hebei
- Pinyin
- Shí
- Strokes
- 5
- Frequency
- 7503 of 2500