lit. a brick as a door knocker (idiom); fig. a temporary expedient; to use sb as a stepping stone to fortune
trad. 敲門磚
Also written 敲門磚【qiāo mén zhuān】
Characters in this word
3敲
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to hit, to strike, to tap, to rap, to knock, to rip sb off, to overcharge
- Pinyin
- qiāo
- Strokes
- 14
- Frequency
- 3486 of 2500
门
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surname Men
- Pinyin
- Mén
- Traditional
- 門
- Strokes
- 3
- Frequency
- 909 of 2500
砖
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variant of 甎|砖[zhuan1]
- Pinyin
- zhuān
- Traditional
- 塼
- Strokes
- 9
- Frequency
- 21874 of 2500