lit. Sichuan dogs bark at the sun (idiom); fig. a simpleton will marvel at even the most common things; alludes to the Sichuan foggy weather where it's uncommon to see a sunny day
Characters in this word
4蜀
Strokes: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0
short name for Sichuan 四川[Si4 chuan1] province, one of the Three Kingdoms 三國|三国[San1 guo2] after the Han dynasty, also called 蜀漢|蜀汉[Shu3 Han4], situated around what is now Sichuan province
- Pinyin
- Shǔ
- Strokes
- 13
犬
Strokes: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0
(literary) dog, Kangxi radical 94
- Pinyin
- quǎn
- Strokes
- 4
- Frequency
- 10813 of 2500
吠
Strokes: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0
to bark
- Pinyin
- fèi
- Strokes
- 7
- Frequency
- 29977 of 2500
日
Strokes: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0
(bound form) sun, day, day of the month, (bound form) Japan (abbr. for 日本[Ri4 ben3]), (vulgar) to fuck; to have sex with
- Pinyin
- rì
- Strokes
- 4
- Frequency
- 723 of 2500