created sense approved 折屐 · zhéjī · to be overjoyed — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"
折屐
zhéjī
to be overjoyed
To be so overcome with joy that one is unaware of one's physical actions; based on an anecdote of Xie An from the Jin Dynasty who accidentally broke the wooden teeth of his clogs upon hearing news of a great military victory.
折, 屐
折 (literal) → 折 · zhé · to break 屐 (literal) → 屐 · jī · clogs
Changed: simplified, traditional, gloss, definition, pinyin, variant pinyin, variants, separable parts, decomposition