lit. an ant trying to shake a big tree (idiom); fig. to overrate one's own strength; also written 蚍蜉撼樹|蚍蜉撼树[pi2 fu2 han4 shu4]
trad. 蚍蜉撼大樹
Also written 蚍蜉撼大樹【pí fú hàn dà shù】
Characters in this word
5蚍
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used in 蚍蜉[pi2 fu2]
- Pinyin
- pí
- Strokes
- 10
蜉
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used in 蚍蜉[pi2 fu2], used in 蜉蝣[fu2 you2]
- Pinyin
- fú
- Strokes
- 13
撼
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to shake, to vibrate
- Pinyin
- hàn
- Strokes
- 16
大
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big; large; great, older (than another person), eldest (as in 大姐[da4 jie3]), greatly; freely; fully, (dialect) father, (dialect) uncle (father's brother)
- Pinyin
- dà
- Strokes
- 3
- Frequency
- 199 of 2500
树
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tree, CL:棵[ke1], to cultivate, to set up
- Pinyin
- shù
- Traditional
- 樹
- Strokes
- 9
- Frequency
- 2862 of 2500