半夜鸡叫
bàn​yè​jī​jiào

rooster crows at midnight

  • created sense approved 半夜鸡叫/半夜雞叫 · bàn​yè​jī​jiào · rooster crows at midnight — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"

    半夜鸡叫 / 半夜雞叫

    bàn​yè​jī​jiào

    rooster crows at midnight

    literary work about a landlord who mimics a rooster's crow to trick laborers into working early, used to describe cruel exploitation

    半夜 (literal) → 半夜 · bàn​yè · midnight 鸡 (literal) → 鸡/雞 · jī · chicken 叫 (literal) → 叫 · jiào · to sound

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

    created sense