lit. calamity in one's armpit (idiom); a major coup happening on one's doorstep; trouble or danger in one's own backyard
trad. 變生肘腋
Also written 變生肘腋【biàn shēng zhǒu yè】
Characters in this word
4变
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to change, to become different, to transform, to vary, rebellion
- Pinyin
- biàn
- Traditional
- 變
- Strokes
- 8
- Frequency
- 1186 of 2500
生
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to grow; to give birth; to produce; to be born, to arise; to occur, to light (a fire), to live; to be alive, life, raw; uncooked; unprocessed, unfamiliar; strange, (bound form) student; person engaged in a field, (bound form) male role in traditional opera, (bound form) life; lifetime, (bound form) means of livelihood, (bound form) very; intensely (as in 生疼[sheng1 teng2]), (bound form) in a forced manner (as in 生拉硬拽[sheng1 la1 ying4 zhuai4])
- Pinyin
- shēng
- Strokes
- 5
- Frequency
- 1196 of 2500
肘
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elbow, pork shoulder
- Pinyin
- zhǒu
- Strokes
- 7
- Frequency
- 45978 of 2500
腋
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(bound form) armpit; axilla; axil
- Pinyin
- yè
- Strokes
- 12