drumming on a bowl in grief (idiom, refers to Zhuangzi 莊子|庄子[Zhuang1 zi3] grieving for his lost wife); fig. grief for a lost wife
Characters in this word
4鼓
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old variant of 鼓[gu3]
- Pinyin
- gǔ
- Traditional
- 皷
- Strokes
- 13
- Frequency
- 12549 of 2500
盆
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basin, flower pot, unit of volume equal to 12 斗[dou3] and 8 升[sheng1], approx 128 liters, CL:個|个[ge4]
- Pinyin
- pén
- Strokes
- 9
- Frequency
- 38927 of 2500
之
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(possessive particle, literary equivalent of 的[de5]), him, her, it
- Pinyin
- zhī
- Strokes
- 3
- Frequency
- 475 of 2500
戚
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variant of 戚[qi1], grief, sorrow
- Pinyin
- qī
- Traditional
- 慼
- Strokes
- 11