老嫗能解
lǎo​yù​néng​jiě

easy to understand

  • created sense approved 老妪能解/老嫗能解 · lǎo​yù​néng​jiě · easy to understand — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"

    老妪能解 / 老嫗能解

    lǎo​yù​néng​jiě

    easy to understand

    easy to understand; even an uneducated old woman can understand it. Refers to a legend about the poet [[白居易|白居易|bai2 ju1 yi4]] who would only keep poems that an old woman could easily comprehend.

    老妪 (literal) → 老妪/老嫗 · lǎo​yù · old woman 能 (literal) → 能 · néng · can 解 (literal) → 解 · jiě · to be able to

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

    created sense