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吊客
diào​kè

mourner

Origin Definitions Defs Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents
  • 青蝇吊客 qīng​yíng​diào​kè having no true friends
    (idiom) used to describe someone who had no close friends in life and is only visited by flies after death; based on a historical quote by Yu Fan from the Records of the Three Kingdoms
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