Entry
挂guà一yī漏lòu万wàn

  1. to mention some but omit many others (idiom); to leave out much more than one includes

    trad. 掛一漏萬

Also written 掛一漏萬【guà yī lòu wàn】

Characters in this word

4
挂
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to hang; to suspend (from a hook etc), to hang up (the phone), (of a line) to be dead, to be worried; to be concerned, (dialect) to make a phone call, to register (at a hospital); to make an appointment (with a doctor), (slang) to kill; to die; to be finished; to fail (an exam), classifier for sets or clusters of objects

Pinyin
guà
Traditional
掛
Strokes
9
Frequency
1287 of 2500
Words starting with 挂Words ending in 挂Anywhere in a word
一
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one, single, a (article), as soon as, entire; whole; all; throughout, "one" radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 1), also pr. [yao1] for greater clarity when spelling out numbers digit by digit

Pinyin
yī
Strokes
1
Frequency
158 of 2500
Words starting with 一Words ending in 一Anywhere in a word