只欠东风 — Chinese idiom
只欠东风
zhǐ qiàn dōng fēng
Traditional: 只欠東風
Meaning
- all we need is an east wind ; lacking only one tiny crucial item
Character by character
- 只zhǐonly, merely, just
- 欠qiànto lack, to owe; to breathe, to yawn
- 东dōngeast, eastern, eastward
- 风fēngwind; air; customs, manners; news
Idioms sharing a character
- 只争朝夕 zhǐ zhēng zhāo xī
- 孤身只影 gū shēn zhī yǐng
- 形单影只 xíng dān yǐng zhī
- 斗酒只鸡 dǒu jiǔ zhī jī
- 独具只眼 dú jù zhī yǎn
- 只字不提 zhī zì bù tí
- 只言片语 zhī yán piàn yǔ
- 只鸡斗酒 zhī jī dǒu jiǔ
- 付之东流 fù zhī dōng liú
- 各奔东西 gè bèn dōng xī
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