Results for “木”

lumberjack / logger

lit. you hit the high road, I'll cross the log bridge (idiom) / fig. you go your way, I'll go mine / you do it your way, I'll do it mine

fallen tree

written in a forceful hand / penetrating / profound

resolute and taciturn (idiom)

(idiom) it takes ten years to grow trees, but a hundred years to cultivate people

can't see the wood for the trees

lit. dumb as a wooden chicken (idiom) / fig. dumbstruck

tree, esp. with recognizable trunk (as opposed to 灌木[guàn mù], bush or shrub)

(proverb) one strand does not make a thread, one tree does not make a forest

log

building / construction / civil engineering

civil engineering

earth and wood framework (idiom) / plain and undecorated body

one's body as wood and earth / undecorated / unvarnished (truth)

clay ox, wooden horse (idiom) / shape without substance / worthless object

pit prop

to play with stacking blocks

night-blooming jessamine (Cestrum nocturnum)

(bird species of China) great barbet (Psilopogon virens)

(bird species of China) great spotted woodpecker (Dendrocopos major)

(bird species of China) great slaty woodpecker (Mulleripicus pulverulentus)

to carry out large scale construction

(bird species of China) buff-spotted flameback (Chrysocolaptes lucidus)

(bird species of China) greater yellownape (Chrysophlegma flavinucha)

to guard a tree-stump, waiting for rabbits, and climb a tree to catch fish (idiom) / without any practical course of action

abbr. for 守株待兔，緣木求魚|守株待兔，缘木求鱼[shǒu zhū dài tù , yuán mù qiú yú]

solid wood

(bird species of China) lesser spotted woodpecker (Dryobates minor)

(bird species of China) Japanese pygmy woodpecker (Yungipicus kizuki)

to be placed in a coffin / (fig.) to die

hickory

lit. the mountains crumble and the trees lie ruined / a great sage has died (idiom)

root of Vladimiria souliei (used in TCM) / Dolomiaea souliei

almond (loanword)

almond (loanword)

(TCM) Japanese ardisia (Ardisia japonica)

elder or elderberry (genus Sambucus)

marionette

battering ram