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东鳞西爪
dōng​lín​xī​zhǎo

odds and ends

Definitions Defs Origin Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents
东鳞西爪 東鱗西爪 dōng​lín​xī​zhǎo
odds and ends
Literally "a scale from the east and a claw from the west"; refers to fragments or bits and pieces of something that do not reveal the whole picture.

Frequency

Written text
0.011 per million

Sources

Frequency data
BCC Corpus (BLCU)