寸鐵
cùn​tiě

small weapon

  • created sense approved 寸铁/寸鐵 · cùn​tiě · small weapon — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"

    寸铁 / 寸鐵

    cùn​tiě

    small weapon

    A very small weapon; a tiny blade (often used figuratively to mean any weapon at all, especially in the phrase [[手无寸铁|手無寸鐵|shou3 wu2 cun4 tie3]] "unarmed")

    寸 (literal) → 寸 · cùn · very little 铁 (literal) → 铁/鐵 · tiě · weapons

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

    created sense