lit. flies do not attack an intact egg (idiom); fig. no smoke without a fire
trad. 蒼蠅不叮無縫蛋
Also written 蒼蠅不叮無縫蛋【cāng ying bù dīng wú fèng dàn】
Characters in this word
7苍
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surname Cang
- Pinyin
- Cāng
- Traditional
- 蒼
- Strokes
- 7
蝇
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fly, musca, CL:隻|只[zhi1]
- Pinyin
- yíng
- Traditional
- 蠅
- Strokes
- 14
不
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no; not so, (bound form) not; un-
- Pinyin
- bù
- Strokes
- 4
- Frequency
- 9 of 2500
叮
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to sting or bite (of mosquito, bee etc), to say repeatedly, to urge insistently, to ask repeatedly, to stick to a point, (onom.) tinkling or jingling sound
- Pinyin
- dīng
- Strokes
- 5
- Frequency
- 14274 of 2500
无
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used in 南無|南无[na1 mo2]
- Pinyin
- mó
- Traditional
- 無
- Strokes
- 4
- Frequency
- 1404 of 2500
缝
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to sew, to stitch
- Pinyin
- féng
- Traditional
- 縫
- Strokes
- 13
- Frequency
- 9622 of 2500
蛋
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variant of 蜑[Dan4]
- Pinyin
- Dàn
- Strokes
- 11
- Frequency
- 2815 of 2500