瘦骨伶仃 — Chinese idiom
瘦骨伶仃
shòu gǔ líng dīng
Meaning
- emaciated; scrawny
Character by character
- 瘦shòuthin, lean, emaciated; meager
- 骨gǔbone; skeleton; frame, framework
- 伶língclever; lonely, solitary
- 仃dīnglonely, solitary
Idioms sharing a character
- 挑肥拣瘦 tiāo féi jiǎn shòu
- 瘦骨嶙峋 shòu gǔ lín xún
- 面黄肌瘦 miàn huáng jī shòu
- 骨瘦如柴 gǔ shòu rú chái
- 伤筋动骨 shāng jīn dòng gǔ
- 伤筋断骨 shāng jīn duàn gǔ
- 冰肌玉骨 bīng jī yù gǔ
- 刻骨相思 kè gǔ xiāng sī
- 刻骨铭心 kè gǔ míng xīn
- 哀毁骨立 āi huǐ gǔ lì
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