鹤立鸡群 — Chinese idiom
鹤立鸡群
hè lì jī qún
Traditional: 鶴立雞群
Meaning
- a crane in a flock of chicken ; way above the common
- manifestly superior
Character by character
- 鹤hècrane; Grus species (various)
- 立lìto stand; to establish, to set up
- 鸡jīchicken
- 群qúngroup, crowd; multitude, mob
Idioms sharing a character
- 一琴一鹤 yī qín yī hè
- 杳如黄鹤 yǎo rú huáng hè
- 槛花笼鹤 jiàn huā lóng hè
- 闲云野鹤 xián yún yě hè
- 风声鹤唳 fēng shēng hè lì
- 驾鹤西去 jià hè xī qù
- 三足鼎立 sān zú dǐng lì
- 亭亭玉立 tíng tíng yù lì
- 势不两立 shì bù liǎng lì
- 哀毁骨立 āi huǐ gǔ lì
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