畫餅
huà​bǐng

pie in the sky

  • created reference approved 画饼/畫餅 → 张/張 (classifier) — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"

    画饼 / 畫餅 huà​bǐng

    张 / 張 zhāng

    classifier

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

    created reference

  • created sense approved 画饼/畫餅 · huà​bǐng · pie in the sky — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"

    画饼 / 畫餅

    huà​bǐng

    pie in the sky

    (literally) a picture of a cake; (figuratively) an empty promise, an unrealistic plan, or something of no practical value

    画 (literal) → 画/畫 · huà · to draw 饼 (literal) → 饼/餅 · bǐng · cake

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

    created sense