bài​xù

waste cotton

  • created sense approved 败絮/敗絮 · bài​xù · waste cotton — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"

    败絮 / 敗絮

    bài​xù

    waste cotton

    ruined cotton padding; metaphorically used to describe something or someone that is useless or rotten on the inside (as in the idiom 'gold and jade on the outside, rotten cotton inside')

    败 (literal) → 败/敗 · bài · dilapidated 絮 (literal) → 絮 · xù · cotton wadding

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

    created sense