shrimp soldiers and crab generals (in mythology or popular fiction, the army of the Dragon King of the Eastern Sea); useless troops (idiom)
trad. 蝦兵蟹將
Also written 蝦兵蟹將【xiā bīng xiè jiàng】
Characters in this word
4虾
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used in 蝦蟆|虾蟆[ha2 ma5]
- Pinyin
- há
- Traditional
- 蝦
- Strokes
- 9
- Frequency
- 9305 of 2500
兵
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soldiers, a force, an army, weapons, arms, military, warlike, CL:個|个[ge4]
- Pinyin
- bīng
- Strokes
- 7
- Frequency
- 4822 of 2500
蟹
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crab
- Pinyin
- xiè
- Strokes
- 19
- Frequency
- 12821 of 2500
将
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will, shall, to use, to take, to checkmate, just a short while ago, (introduces object of main verb, used in the same way as 把[ba3])
- Pinyin
- jiāng
- Traditional
- 將
- Strokes
- 9
- Frequency
- 153 of 2500