great mansion on the verge of collapse (idiom); hopeless situation
trad. 大廈將傾
Also written 大廈將傾【dà shà jiāng qīng】
Characters in this word
4大
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big; large; great, older (than another person), eldest (as in 大姐[da4 jie3]), greatly; freely; fully, (dialect) father, (dialect) uncle (father's brother)
- Pinyin
- dà
- Strokes
- 3
- Frequency
- 199 of 2500
厦
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abbr. for Xiamen or Amoy 廈門|厦门[Xia4 men2], Fujian
- Pinyin
- Xià
- Traditional
- 廈
- Strokes
- 12
将
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will, shall, to use, to take, to checkmate, just a short while ago, (introduces object of main verb, used in the same way as 把[ba3])
- Pinyin
- jiāng
- Traditional
- 將
- Strokes
- 9
- Frequency
- 153 of 2500
倾
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to overturn, to collapse, to lean, to tend, to incline, to pour out
- Pinyin
- qīng
- Traditional
- 傾
- Strokes
- 10
- Frequency
- 25454 of 2500