槛花笼鹤 — Chinese idiom
槛花笼鹤
jiàn huā lóng hè
Traditional: 檻花籠鶴
Meaning
- a flower in a cage, a crane in a basket ; prisoner
Character by character
- 槛jiànthreshold, door frame
- 花huāflower, blossom; to spend (time or money)
- 笼lóngbasket; cage; bamboo basket used to serve dimsum
- 鹤hècrane; Grus species (various)
Idioms sharing a character
- 朱云折槛 zhū yún zhé jiàn
- 笼鸟槛猿 lóng niǎo jiàn yuán
- 踏破门槛 tā pò mén kǎn
- 雕楹碧槛 diāo yíng bì kǎn
- 云窗雾槛 yún chuāng wù kǎn
- 借花献佛 jiè huā xiàn Fó
- 名花有主 míng huā yǒu zhǔ
- 天花乱坠 tiān huā luàn zhuì
- 奇花异草 qí huā yì cǎo
- 如花似玉 rú huā sì yù
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