created sense approved 移花接木 · yíhuājiēmù · to graft flowers — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"
移花接木
yíhuājiēmù
to graft flowers
to graft a flowering branch onto another tree or plant
移 (literal) → 移 · yí · to move 花 (literal) → 花 · huā · flower 接木 (literal) → 接木 · jiēmù · to graft
Changed: simplified, traditional, gloss, definition, pinyin, variant pinyin, variants, separable parts, decomposition
created sense approved 移花接木 · yíhuājiēmù · to substitute through trickery — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"
移花接木
yíhuājiēmù
to substitute through trickery
(idiom) to surreptitiously substitute one thing for another; to palm off the spurious as genuine through deceptive means
移 (literal) → 移 · yí · to move 花 (literal) → 花 · huā · flower 接木 (literal) → 接木 · jiēmù · to graft
Changed: simplified, traditional, gloss, definition, pinyin, variant pinyin, variants, separable parts, decomposition