冢中枯骨 — Chinese idiom
冢中枯骨
zhǒng zhōng kū gǔ
Traditional: 塚中枯骨
Meaning
- dried bones in burial mound ; dead and buried
Character by character
- 冢zhǒngburial mound, mausoleum; grand
- 中zhōngcentral; center, middle; amidst; to hit (target),
- 枯kūdried out, withered, decayed
- 骨gǔbone; skeleton; frame, framework
Idioms sharing a character
- 一矢中的 yī shǐ zhòng dì
- 一语中的 yī yǔ zhòng dì
- 中箭落马 zhòng jiàn luò mǎ
- 中西合璧 Zhōng Xī hé bì
- 人中龙凤 rén zhōng lóng fèng
- 切中时弊 qiè zhòng shí bì
- 切中时病 qiè zhòng shí bìng
- 切中要害 qiè zhòng yào hài
- 古今中外 gǔ jīn zhōng wài
- 命中注定 mìng zhōng zhù dìng
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