吞舟之魚
tūn​zhōu​zhī​yú

fish big enough to swallow a boat

  • created sense approved 吞舟之鱼/吞舟之魚 · tūn​zhōu​zhī​yú · fish big enough to swallow a boat — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"

    吞舟之鱼 / 吞舟之魚

    tūn​zhōu​zhī​yú

    fish big enough to swallow a boat

    A fish large enough to swallow a boat; often used to describe a person who has committed a serious crime and managed to evade the law

    吞 (literal) → 吞 · tūn · to swallow 舟 (literal) → 舟 · zhōu · boat 之 (literal) → 之 · zhī · [possessive] 鱼 (literal) → 鱼/魚 · yú · fish

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

    created sense