恒河沙数 — Chinese idiom
恒河沙数
Héng hé shā shù
Traditional: 恆河沙數
Meaning
- countless as the grains of sand in the Ganges
Character by character
- 恒Héngconstant, persistent, regular
- 河hériver, stream; the Yellow river
- 沙shāsand, gravel, pebbles; granulated
- 数shùcount, number, several
Idioms sharing a character
- 持之以恒 chí zhī yǐ héng
- 信口开河 xìn kǒu kāi hé
- 口若悬河 kǒu ruò xuán hé
- 暴虎冯河 bào hǔ píng hé
- 江河日下 jiāng hé rì xià
- 河东狮吼 Hé dōng shī hǒu
- 海晏河清 hǎi yàn hé qīng
- 血流成河 xuè liú chéng hé
- 过河拆桥 guò hé chāi qiáo
- 一盘散沙 yī pán sǎn shā
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