千 里 送 鹅 毛

qiān lǐ sòng é máodictionary entry

goose feather sent from afar (idiom) / a trifling present with a weighty thought behind it

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Original source entry:

千里送鵝毛 千里送鹅毛 [qian1 li3 song4 e2 mao2] /goose feather sent from afar (idiom); a trifling present with a weighty thought behind it/

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Other forms in these source records: 千里送鵝毛

千
qiān
thousand / used in 鞦韆|秋千[qiū qiān]
里
lǐ
lining / interior / inside / internal / also written 裏|里[lǐ] / li, ancient measure of length, approx. 500 m / neighborhood / ancient administrative unit of 25 families / (Tw) borough, administrative unit between the township 鎮|镇[zhèn] and neighborhood 鄰|邻[lín] levels
Lǐ
surname Li
送
sòng
to send / to deliver / to transmit / to give (as a present) / to see (sb) off / to accompany / to go along with
鹅
é
goose / CL:隻|只[zhī]
毛
máo
hair / feather / down / wool / mildew / mold / coarse or semifinished / young / raw / careless / unthinking / nervous / scared / (of currency) to devalue or depreciate / classifier for Chinese fractional monetary unit ( = 角[jiǎo] , = one-tenth of a yuan or 10 fen 分[fēn])
Máo
surname Mao

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