created sense approved 维鹊有巢，维鸠居之/維鵲有巢，維鳩居之 · wéiquèyǒucháowéijiūjūzhī · the dove occupies the magpie's nest — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"
维鹊有巢，维鸠居之 / 維鵲有巢，維鳩居之
wéiquèyǒucháowéijiūjūzhī
the dove occupies the magpie's nest
literary idiom meaning to take over another person's home or property; literally, the magpie builds a nest and the cuckoo or dove comes to live in it
维 (literal) → 维/維 · wéi · [auxiliary] 鹊 (literal) → 鹊/鵲 · què · magpie 有 (literal) → 有 · yǒu · to have 巢 (literal) → 巢 · cháo · nest ， (non_chinese) 维 (literal) → 维/維 · wéi · [auxiliary] 鸠 (literal) → 鸠/鳩 · jiū · turtledove 居 (literal) → 居 · jū · to reside 之 (literal) → 之 · zhī · it
Changed: simplified, traditional, gloss, definition, pinyin, variant pinyin, variants, separable parts, decomposition