茶饭不思 — Chinese idiom
茶饭不思
chá fàn bù sī
Traditional: 茶飯不思
Meaning
- no thought for tea or rice ; melancholic and suffering
- to have no appetite
Character by character
- 茶chátea; tea leaves; tea plant
- 饭fànmeal, food; cooked rice
- 不bùno, not, un-; negative prefix
- 思sīto think, to ponder, to consider; final particle
Idioms sharing a character
- 三茶六饭 sān chá liù fàn
- 人走茶凉 rén zǒu chá liáng
- 吃大锅饭 chī dà guō fàn
- 施粥舍饭 shī zhōu shě fàn
- 生米熟饭 shēng mǐ shú fàn
- 看菜吃饭 kàn cài chī fàn
- 酒囊饭袋 jiǔ náng fàn dài
- 饭糗茹草 fàn qiǔ rú cǎo
- 饱餐战饭 bǎo cān zhàn fàn
- 一丁不识 yī dīng bù shí
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