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Definition(s) for: 千里送鹅毛

Hanzi Pinyin Definition(s)
千里送鹅毛 qiān lǐ sòng é máo - goose feather sent from afar (idiom); a trifling present with a weighty thought behind it

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HSK 2 Level (2012) HSK 3 Band (2022) SUBTLEX-CH BeijingUni Global BeijingUni Weibo
- - - - 80,119

Individual Character Breakdown:

Simp Pinyin Eng
qiān- thousand
qiān- used in 鞦韆|秋千[qiu1qian1]
- Li (surname)
- li, ancient measure of length, approx. 500 m
- neighborhood
- ancient administrative unit of 25 families
- (Tw) borough, administrative unit between the township 鎮|镇[zhen4] and neighborhood 鄰|邻[lin2] levels
- variant of 裡|里[li3]
- lining
- interior
- inside
- internal
- also written 裏|里[li3]
sòng- to send; to deliver; to transmit
- to give (as a present)
- to see (sb) off
- to accompany; to go along with
é- variant of 鵝|鹅[e2]
é- goose
- CL:隻|只[zhi1]
é- variant of 鵝|鹅[e2]
máo- surname Mao
máo- hair
- feather
- down
- wool
- mildew
- mold
- coarse or semifinished
- young
- raw
- careless
- unthinking
- nervous
- scared
- (of currency) to devalue or depreciate
- classifier for Chinese fractional monetary unit ( = 角[jiao3] , = one-tenth of a yuan or 10 fen 分[fen1])

Other Words Containing 千里送鹅毛

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Word HSK 2 Level (2012) HSK 3 Band (2022) SUBTLEX-CH BeijingUni Global BeijingUni Weibo