created sense approved 春江水暖鸭先知/春江水暖鴨先知 · chūnjiāngshuǐnuǎnyāxiānzhī · the duck is the first to know the spring water is warm — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"
春江水暖鸭先知 / 春江水暖鴨先知
chūnjiāngshuǐnuǎnyāxiānzhī
the duck is the first to know the spring water is warm
(idiom) people in a specific environment or field are the first to sense changes or trends within it; an expert knows which way the wind blows
春 (literal) → 春 · chūn · spring 江 (literal) → 江 · jiāng · river 水 (literal) → 水 · shuǐ · water 暖 (literal) → 暖 · nuǎn · warm 鸭 (literal) → 鸭/鴨 · yā · duck 先 (literal) → 先 · xiān · first 知 (literal) → 知 · zhī · to know
Changed: simplified, traditional, gloss, definition, pinyin, variant pinyin, variants, separable parts, decomposition