告朔羊存
gù​shuò​yáng​cún

sheep remains for the ceremony

  • created sense approved 告朔羊存 · gù​shuò​yáng​cún · sheep remains for the ceremony — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"

    告朔羊存

    gù​shuò​yáng​cún

    sheep remains for the ceremony

    to do something perfunctorily as a mere formality; preserving a ritual in form only while the spirit is lost

    告朔 (literal) → 告朔 · gào​shuò · announcement of the new moon 羊 (literal) → 羊 · yáng · sheep 存 (literal) → 存 · cún · to exist

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

    created sense