lit. the toad wants to eat swan meat (idiom); fig. to try to punch above one's weight
trad. 癩蛤蟆想吃天鵝肉
Also written 癩蛤蟆想吃天鵝肉【lài há ma xiǎng chī tiān é ròu】
Characters in this word
8癞
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scabies, skin disease
- Pinyin
- lài
- Traditional
- 癩
- Strokes
- 18
蛤
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(bound form) clam, used in 蛤蚧[ge2 jie4]
- Pinyin
- gé
- Strokes
- 12
- Frequency
- 3909 of 2500
蟆
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toad
- Pinyin
- má
- Strokes
- 16
想
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to think (about), to think of; to devise, to think (that); to believe (that), to desire; to want (to), to miss (feel wistful about the absence of)
- Pinyin
- xiǎng
- Strokes
- 13
- Frequency
- 29 of 2500
吃
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to eat; to consume, to eat at (a cafeteria etc), to eradicate; to destroy, to absorb, to suffer (shock, injury, defeat etc)
- Pinyin
- chī
- Strokes
- 6
- Frequency
- 143 of 2500
天
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day, sky, heaven
- Pinyin
- tiān
- Strokes
- 4
- Frequency
- 211 of 2500
鹅
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variant of 鵝|鹅[e2]
- Pinyin
- é
- Traditional
- 䳘
- Strokes
- 12
- Frequency
- 12109 of 2500
肉
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meat, flesh, pulp (of a fruit), (coll.) (of a fruit) squashy, (of a person) flabby, irresolute, Kangxi radical 130
- Pinyin
- ròu
- Strokes
- 6
- Frequency
- 1834 of 2500