燕巢幕上
yàn​cháo​mù​shàng

dangerous situation

  • created reference approved 燕巢幕上 → 燕巢于幕/燕巢於幕 (same_as) — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"

    燕巢幕上 yàn​cháo​mù​shàng

    燕巢于幕 / 燕巢於幕 yàn​cháo​yú​mù

    same_as

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

    created reference

  • created sense approved 燕巢幕上 · yàn​cháo​mù​shàng · dangerous situation — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"

    燕巢幕上

    yàn​cháo​mù​shàng

    dangerous situation

    a swallow building its nest on a tent curtain; a metaphor for a precarious or extremely dangerous situation

    燕 (literal) → 燕 · yàn · swallow 巢 (literal) → 巢 · cháo · to build a nest 幕 (literal) → 幕 · mù · curtain 上 (bound) → 上 · shang · on

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

    created sense