芥子
jiè​zǐ

mustard seed

  • created sense approved 芥子 · jiè​zǐ · mustard seed — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"

    芥子

    jiè​zǐ

    mustard seed

    the seed of the mustard plant; (figuratively) something minute or tiny, often used in Buddhist literature to illustrate the containment of the vast within the small

    芥 (literal) → 芥 · jiè · mustard (jiè) 子 (literal) → 子 · zǐ · seed

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

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