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Meaning
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Pronunciation
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chán | |||||||||||||||||||
Explanation |
Left: Insect 虫, right: single, individual 单 (It shines 丷 the sun 日 in a group of ten 十 [with nine planets] as the single one) | |||||||||||||||||||
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(They never are in a group:) The insect that stays single is the cicade. | |||||||||||||||||||
Radicals
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Vocabulary
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| 静若寒蝉 | jìng ruò hán chán | as quiet as a cicada in winter (idiom) |
| 金蝉脱壳 | jīn chán tuō qiào | lit. the cicada sheds its carapace (idiom); fig. to vanish leaving an empty shell; a crafty escape plan |
| Jīn chán | Golden Cicada | |
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| 螳螂捕蝉 | táng láng bǔ chán | the mantis stalks the cicada, unaware of the oriole behind |
| 螳螂捕蝉 | táng láng bǔ chán |
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