lit. under a big tree the shade is plentiful (idiom); fig. to benefit by proximity to an influential person
trad. 大樹底下好乘涼
Also written 大樹底下好乘涼【dà shù dǐ xià hǎo chéng liáng】
Characters in this word
7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
树
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tree, CL:棵[ke1], to cultivate, to set up
- Pinyin
- shù
- Traditional
- 樹
- Strokes
- 9
- Frequency
- 2862 of 2500
底
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(equivalent to 的 as possessive particle)
- Pinyin
- de
- Strokes
- 8
- Frequency
- 10646 of 2500
下
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down, downwards, below, lower, later, next (week etc), second (of two parts), to decline, to go down, to arrive at (a decision, conclusion etc), measure word to show the frequency of an action
- Pinyin
- xià
- Strokes
- 3
- Frequency
- 184 of 2500
好
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good, appropriate; proper, all right!, (before a verb) easy to, (before a verb) good to, (before an adjective for exclamatory effect) so, (verb complement indicating completion), (of two people) close; on intimate terms, (after a form of address) hello
- Pinyin
- hǎo
- Strokes
- 6
- Frequency
- 11 of 2500
乘
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surname Cheng
- Pinyin
- Chéng
- Strokes
- 10
- Frequency
- 6191 of 2500
凉
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the five Liang of the Sixteen Kingdoms, namely: Former Liang 前涼|前凉 (314-376), Later Liang 後涼|后凉 (386-403), Northern Liang 北涼|北凉 (398-439), Southern Liang 南涼|南凉[Nan2 Liang2] (397-414), Western Liang 西涼|西凉 (400-421)
- Pinyin
- Liáng
- Traditional
- 涼
- Strokes
- 10
- Frequency
- 7814 of 2500