lit. stale grain, overcooked sesame (idiom); fig. the same boring old gossip
trad. 陳谷子爛芝麻
Also written 陳谷子爛芝麻【chén gǔ zi làn zhī ma】
Characters in this word
6陈
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surname Chen, Chen (c. 1045 – 479 BC), a Zhou dynasty state, Chen (557–589), one of the Southern Dynasties 南朝[Nan2 Chao2]
- Pinyin
- Chén
- Traditional
- 陳
- Strokes
- 7
- Frequency
- 6493 of 2500
谷
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grain, corn
- Pinyin
- gǔ
- Traditional
- 穀
- Strokes
- 7
- Frequency
- 9105 of 2500
子
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son, child, seed, egg, small thing, 1st earthly branch: 11 p.m.–1 a.m., midnight, 11th solar month (7th December to 5th January), year of the rat, viscount, fourth of five orders of nobility 五等爵位[wu3 deng3 jue2 wei4], ancient Chinese compass point: 0° (north), subsidiary; subordinate; (prefix) sub-
- Pinyin
- zǐ
- Strokes
- 3
- Frequency
- 2170 of 2500
烂
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soft; mushy, well-cooked and soft, to rot; to decompose, rotten, worn out, chaotic; messy, utterly; thoroughly, crappy; bad
- Pinyin
- làn
- Traditional
- 爛
- Strokes
- 9
- Frequency
- 2878 of 2500
芝
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Zoysia pungens
- Pinyin
- zhī
- Strokes
- 6
麻
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hemp (variant of 麻[ma2])
- Pinyin
- má
- Traditional
- 蔴
- Strokes
- 11
- Frequency
- 14175 of 2500