白面書生
bái​miàn​shū​shēng

pale-faced scholar

  • created sense approved 白面书生/白面書生 · bái​miàn​shū​shēng · pale-faced scholar — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"

    白面书生 / 白面書生

    bái​miàn​shū​shēng

    pale-faced scholar

    (idiom) a young, refined-looking scholar who is physically weak or lacks practical life experience

    白 (literal) → 白 · bái · white 面 (literal) → 面 · miàn · face 书生 (literal) → 书生/書生 · shū​shēng · bookish person

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    created sense

  • created sense approved 白面书生/白面書生 · bái​miàn​shū​shēng · scholar — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"

    白面书生 / 白面書生

    bái​miàn​shū​shēng

    scholar

    a general term for a scholar or an intellectual

    白 (literal) → 白 · bái · white 面 (literal) → 面 · miàn · face 书生 (literal) → 书生/書生 · shū​shēng · scholar

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

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