春蘭秋菊
chūn​lán​qiū​jú

spring orchids and autumn chrysanthemums

  • created sense approved 春兰秋菊/春蘭秋菊 · chūn​lán​qiū​jú · spring orchids and autumn chrysanthemums — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"

    春兰秋菊 / 春蘭秋菊

    chūn​lán​qiū​jú

    spring orchids and autumn chrysanthemums

    Describes things or people that have their own unique beauty or strengths in their own proper time; everything has its own merits.

    春 (literal) → 春 · chūn · spring 兰 (literal) → 兰/蘭 · lán · orchid 秋 (literal) → 秋 · qiū · autumn 菊 (literal) → 菊 · jú · chrysanthemum

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

    created sense