四仰八叉 — Chinese idiom
四仰八叉
sì yǎng bā chā
Meaning
- sprawled out on one's back
Character by character
- 四sìfour
- 仰yǎngraise the head to look; look up to, rely on, admir
- 八bāeight; all around, all sides
- 叉chāfork; prong; cross, intersect
Idioms sharing a character
- 三妻四妾 sān qī sì qiè
- 不三不四 bù sān bù sì
- 危机四伏 wēi jī sì fú
- 名扬四海 míng yáng sì hǎi
- 四世同堂 sì shì tóng táng
- 四分五裂 sì fēn wǔ liè
- 四大皆空 sì dà jiē kōng
- 四平八稳 sì píng bā wěn
- 四海升平 sì hǎi shēng píng
- 四海为家 sì hǎi wéi jiā
Data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3). Retrieved 2026-10-22.
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