杼軸其空
zhù​zhóu​qí​kōng

impoverished; shallow

  • created sense approved 杼轴其空/杼軸其空 · zhù​zhóu​qí​kōng · impoverished; shallow — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"

    杼轴其空 / 杼軸其空

    zhù​zhóu​qí​kōng

    impoverished; shallow

    to be utterly destitute, originally referring to an empty loom; figuratively describes a state of poverty or a lack of substance and depth in one's writing

    杼轴 (literal) → 杼轴/杼軸 · zhù​zhóu · poverty 其 (literal) → 其 · qí · [third-person possessive] 空 (literal) → 空 · kōng · empty

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

    created sense