jiā​jī​yě​zhì

different artistic styles

  • created reference approved 家鸡野雉/家雞野雉 → 家鸡野鹜/家雞野鶩 (synonym) — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"

    家鸡野雉 / 家雞野雉 jiā​jī​yě​zhì

    家鸡野鹜 / 家雞野鶩 jiā​jī​yě​wù

    synonym

    Changed: source (simp), source (trad), source pinyin, target (simp), target (trad), target pinyin, type

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  • created sense approved 家鸡野雉/家雞野雉 · jiā​jī​yě​zhì · different artistic styles — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"

    家鸡野雉 / 家雞野雉

    jiā​jī​yě​zhì

    different artistic styles

    Comparing domestic chicken to wild pheasant; originally used by Yu Yi of the Jin Dynasty to compare his own calligraphy to that of Wang Xizhi, referring to different styles of calligraphy or painting

    家 (literal) → 家 · jiā · home 鸡 (literal) → 鸡/雞 · jī · chicken 野 (literal) → 野 · yě · wild 雉 (literal) → 雉 · zhì · pheasant

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  • created sense approved 家鸡野雉/家雞野雉 · jiā​jī​yě​zhì · preferring the new over the old — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"

    家鸡野雉 / 家雞野雉

    jiā​jī​yě​zhì

    preferring the new over the old

    Valuing the distant or exotic while despising the familiar; often used to describe a man who neglects his wife for a mistress in extramarital relations

    家 (literal) → 家 · jiā · home 鸡 (literal) → 鸡/雞 · jī · chicken 野 (literal) → 野 · yě · wild 雉 (literal) → 雉 · zhì · pheasant

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

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