created sense approved 戴笠 · dàilì · Dai Li — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"
戴笠
dàilì
Dai Li
Historical figure (1897-1946) who served as the powerful head of the military intelligence services for the Kuomintang (KMT).
戴 (literal) → 戴 · dài · Dai 笠 (literal) → 笠 · lì · bamboo hat
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created sense approved 戴笠 · dàilì · to wear a bamboo hat — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"
戴笠
dàilì
to wear a bamboo hat
To wear a bamboo hat; (metaphorically) a friend of humble status, from a Jin dynasty poem about maintaining friendship despite differences in wealth or social rank
戴 (literal) → 戴 · dài · to wear 笠 (literal) → 笠 · lì · bamboo hat
Changed: simplified, traditional, gloss, definition, pinyin, variant pinyin, variants, separable parts, decomposition