驴
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donkey; CL:頭|头[tou2]
- Strokes
- 7
- Radical
- 馬 +4
- Structure
- Left–right 左右
- Traditional
- 驢
- Common rank
- #1,938
- Unicode
- U+9A74
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Formation & memory
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Words with 驴
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| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 驴年马月 | see 猴年馬月|猴年马月[hou2 nian2 ma3 yue4] | |
| 非驴非马 | neither fish nor fowl; resembling nothing on earth | |
| 电驴子 | (dialect) motorcycle | |
| 驴唇不对马嘴 | (lit.) a donkey's lips do not match a horse's mouth (saying); (fig.) wide of the mark; irr… | |
| 小电驴 | (coll.) electric scooter; electric moped; (dialect) scooter | |
| 好心当成驴肝肺 | (saying) to mistake good intentions for ill will | |
| 博士买驴 | (idiom) to act like the scholar who wrote at length about buying a donkey without even men… | |
| 驴唇马嘴 | (lit.) a donkey's lips do not match a horse's mouth (idiom); (fig.) wide of the mark; irre… | |
| 驴子 | donkey; ass | |
| 电驴 | (slang) electric bicycle or scooter (moped-style) | |
| 毛驴 | donkey; CL:頭|头[tou2] | |
| 母驴 | jenny; female donkey | |
| 懒驴上磨屎尿多 | (proverb) A lazy person will find many excuses to delay working; lit. When a lazy donkey i… | |
| 野驴 | onager (Equus onager) | |
| 驴友 | backpacker; travel buddy | |
| 骑驴找马 | (idiom) (coll.) to continue in an unsatisfactory job (or romantic relationship etc) while … | |
| 婚驴 | (derog.) (slang) married woman (term used by some feminists to imply that by marrying, wom… | |
| 别人牵驴你拔橛子 | lit. someone else stole the donkey; you only pulled up the stake it was tethered to (idiom… | |
| 卸磨杀驴 | lit. to kill the donkey when the grinding is done (idiom); fig. to get rid of sb once he h… | |
| 人家牵驴你拔橛 | see 別人牽驢你拔橛子|别人牵驴你拔橛子[bie2 ren5 qian1 lu:2 ni3 ba2 jue2 zi5] |
Sound family
Characters sharing the sound component 户 — compare how they read.