铁树开花 — Chinese idiom
铁树开花
tiě shù kāi huā
Traditional: 鐵樹開花
Meaning
- lit. the iron tree blooms
- a highly improbable or extremely rare occurrence
Character by character
- 铁tiěiron; strong, solid, firm
- 树shùtree; to plant; to set up, to establish
- 开kāito open; to start, to initiate, to begin
- 花huāflower, blossom; to spend (time or money)
Idioms sharing a character
- 手无寸铁 shǒu wú cùn tiě
- 斩钉截铁 zhǎn dīng jié tiě
- 砸锅卖铁 zá guō mài tiě
- 磨穿铁砚 mó chuān tiě yàn
- 踏破铁鞋 tà pò tiě xié
- 铜墙铁壁 tóng qiáng tiě bì
- 铮铮铁汉 zhēng zhēng tiě hàn
- 铁面无私 tiě miàn wú sī
- 铁骨铮铮 tiě gǔ zhēng zhēng
- 铁齿铜牙 tiě chǐ tóng yá
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