狗头上生角
gǒu​tóu​shàng​shēng​jiǎo

impossible

  • created sense approved 狗头上生角/狗頭上生角 · gǒu​tóu​shàng​shēng​jiǎo · impossible — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"

    狗头上生角 / 狗頭上生角

    gǒu​tóu​shàng​shēng​jiǎo

    impossible

    (idiom) something that can never happen; a completely impossible event or a very strange phenomenon, literally meaning "horns growing on a dog's head"

    狗 (literal) → 狗 · gǒu · dog 头上 (literal) → 头上/頭上 · tóu​shang · overhead 生 (literal) → 生 · shēng · to grow 角 (literal) → 角 · jiǎo · horn

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

    created sense