dié​chuáng​jià​wū

needless duplication

  • created reference approved 叠床架屋/疊床架屋 → 屋下架屋 (see) — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"

    叠床架屋 / 疊床架屋 dié​chuáng​jià​wū

    屋下架屋 wū​xià​jià​wū

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  • created reference approved 叠床架屋/疊床架屋 → 床上施床 (see) — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"

    叠床架屋 / 疊床架屋 dié​chuáng​jià​wū

    床上施床 chuáng​shàng​shī​chuáng

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  • created sense approved 叠床架屋/疊床架屋 · dié​chuáng​jià​wū · needless duplication — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"

    叠床架屋 / 疊床架屋

    dié​chuáng​jià​wū

    needless duplication

    Literally "piling a bed on a bed or building a house on top of a house"; used to describe unnecessary repetition or redundant layers of organization.

    叠 (literal) → 叠/疊 · dié · to pile up 床 (literal) → 床 · chuáng · bed 架 (literal) → 架 · jià · to support 屋 (literal) → 屋 · wū · house

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

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