东鳞西爪
dōng​lín​xī​zhǎo

odds and ends

  • created sense approved 东鳞西爪/東鱗西爪 · dōng​lín​xī​zhǎo · odds and ends — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"

    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.

    dōng​lín​xī​zhuǎ

    东 (literal) → 东/東 · dōng · [haphazard] 鳞 (literal) → 鳞/鱗 · lín · scales 西 (literal) → 西 · xī · here and there 爪 (literal) → 爪 · zhǎo · claw

    Changed: simplified, traditional, gloss, definition, pinyin, variant pinyin, variants, separable parts, decomposition

    created sense