懸榻
xuán​tà

to extend a warm welcome

  • created reference approved 悬榻/懸榻 → 悬床/懸床 (same_as) — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"

    悬榻 / 懸榻 xuán​tà

    悬床 / 懸床 xuán​chuáng

    same_as

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

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  • created sense approved 悬榻/懸榻 · xuán​tà · to extend a warm welcome — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"

    悬榻 / 懸榻

    xuán​tà

    to extend a warm welcome

    (literary) to treat a talented or worthy guest with great hospitality; originally refers to a story from the "Book of the Later Han" where the official Chen Fan kept a special seat specifically for Xu Zhi, which he would hang up on the wall whenever Xu was not visiting

    悬 (literal) → 悬/懸 · xuán · to hang 榻 (literal) → 榻 · tà · couch

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

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