鸿毛泰岱 — Chinese idiom
鸿毛泰岱
hóng máo tài dài
Traditional: 鴻毛泰岱
Meaning
- light as a goose feather, heavy as Mt Tai ; of no consequence to one person, a matter of life or death to another
Character by character
- 鸿hónga species of wild swan; vast
- 毛máohair, fur, feathers; coarse
- 泰tàigreat, exalted, superior; calm; big
- 岱dàithe Daishan mountain in Shandong
Idioms sharing a character
- 来鸿去燕 lái hóng qù yàn
- 哀鸿遍野 āi hóng biàn yě
- 轻于鸿毛 qīng yú hóng máo
- 雪泥鸿爪 xuě ní hóng zhǎo
- 鸿毛泰山 hóng máo Tài Shān
- 一毛不拔 yī máo bù bá
- 不毛之地 bù máo zhī dì
- 九牛一毛 jiǔ niú yī máo
- 千里鹅毛 qiān lǐ é máo
- 吹毛求疵 chuī máo qiú cī
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