泰山鸿毛
tài​shān​hóng​máo

weighty as Mount Tai or light as a feather

  • created reference approved 泰山鸿毛/泰山鴻毛 → 泰山 (see) — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"

    泰山鸿毛 / 泰山鴻毛 tài​shān​hóng​máo

    泰山 tài​shān

    see

    Changed: source (simp), source (trad), source pinyin, target (simp), target (trad), target pinyin, type

    created reference

  • created sense approved 泰山鸿毛/泰山鴻毛 · tài​shān​hóng​máo · weighty as Mount Tai or light as a feather — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"

    泰山鸿毛 / 泰山鴻毛

    tài​shān​hóng​máo

    weighty as Mount Tai or light as a feather

    As weighty as [[泰山|泰山|tai4 shan1]] or as light as a goose feather; usually describes a death that is either for a noble cause or for a trifling reason.

    泰山 (literal) → 泰山 · tài​shān · Mount Tai 鸿毛 (literal) → 鸿毛/鴻毛 · hóng​máo · goose feather

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

    created sense