wǔ​què​liù​yàn

about the same

  • created sense approved 五雀六燕 · wǔ​què​liù​yàn · about the same — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"

    五雀六燕

    wǔ​què​liù​yàn

    about the same

    about the same; six of one and half a dozen of the other; referring to a problem in the ancient mathematical text [[九章算术|九章算術|jiu3 zhang1 suan4 shu4]] where five sparrows and six swallows weigh the same

    五 (literal) → 五 · wǔ · five 雀 (literal) → 雀 · què · sparrow 六 (literal) → 六 · liù · six 燕 (literal) → 燕 · yàn · swallow

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

    created sense