the magpie made a nest, the turtledove dwells in it (idiom); to reap where one has not sown
trad. 鵲巢鳩占
Also written 鵲巢鳩占【què cháo jiū zhàn】
Characters in this word
4鹊
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magpie
- Pinyin
- què
- Traditional
- 鵲
- Strokes
- 13
巢
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surname Chao
- Pinyin
- Cháo
- Strokes
- 11
- Frequency
- 25080 of 2500
鸠
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turtledove, (literary) to gather
- Pinyin
- jiū
- Traditional
- 鳩
- Strokes
- 7
占
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variant of 占[zhan4]
- Pinyin
- zhàn
- Traditional
- 佔
- Strokes
- 5
- Frequency
- 3867 of 2500