牛山濯濯
niú​shān​zhuó​zhuó

treeless and bare

  • created sense approved 牛山濯濯 · niú​shān​zhuó​zhuó · treeless and bare — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"

    牛山濯濯

    niú​shān​zhuó​zhuó

    treeless and bare

    Originally describing a hill stripped of its trees and vegetation, this phrase is now commonly used as a humorous way to describe a person who is bald or has a thinning scalp.

    牛 (literal) → 牛 · niú · ox 山 (literal) → 山 · shān · mountain 濯濯 (reduplication) → 濯 · zhuó · bald

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

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