懂中文 Dong Chinese
Dictionary
Log in
  • Learn
  • Dictionary
  • Media
  • Settings
吊客
diào​kè

mourner

Definitions Defs Origin Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents
  • 青蝇吊客 qīng​yíng​diào​kè having no true friends
    (idiom) used to describe someone who had no close friends in life and is only visited by flies after death; based on a historical quote by Yu Fan from the Records of the Three Kingdoms