lit. cutting one's stomach to hide a pearl (idiom); fig. wasting a lot of effort on trivialities
Characters in this word
4剖
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to cut open, to analyze, Taiwan pr. [pou3]
- Pinyin
- pōu
- Strokes
- 10
腹
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abdomen, stomach, belly
- Pinyin
- fù
- Strokes
- 13
- Frequency
- 10620 of 2500
藏
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Tibetan ethnic group, Tibet Autonomous Region (short name for 西藏自治區|西藏自治区[Xi1 zang4 Zi4 zhi4 qu1])
- Pinyin
- Zàng
- Strokes
- 17
- Frequency
- 1181 of 2500
珠
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bead, pearl, CL:粒[li4],顆|颗[ke1]
- Pinyin
- zhū
- Strokes
- 10
- Frequency
- 20415 of 2500