犬馬之心
quǎn​mǎ​zhī​xīn

loyal devotion

  • created sense approved 犬马之心/犬馬之心 · quǎn​mǎ​zhī​xīn · loyal devotion — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"

    犬马之心 / 犬馬之心

    quǎn​mǎ​zhī​xīn

    loyal devotion

    loyal devotion; full-hearted loyalty; originally used to describe the humble loyalty of a subject to a monarch or official

    犬马 (literal) → 犬马/犬馬 · quǎn​mǎ · [humble self-reference] 之 (literal) → 之 · zhī · [possessive] 心 (literal) → 心 · xīn · intention

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

    created sense