竹马之交 — Chinese idiom
竹马之交
zhú mǎ zhī jiāo
Traditional: 竹馬之交
Meaning
- childhood friend
Character by character
- 竹zhúbamboo; flute
- 马mǎhorse; surname
- 之zhīmarks preceding phrase as modifier of following ph
- 交jiāoto connect; to deliver, to exchange; to intersect;
Idioms sharing a character
- 势如破竹 shì rú pò zhú
- 破竹之势 pò zhú zhī shì
- 破竹建瓴 pò zhú jiàn líng
- 竹篮打水 zhú lán dǎ shuǐ
- 丝竹管弦 sī zhú guǎn xián
- 罄竹难书 qìng zhú nán shū
- 胸有成竹 xiōng yǒu chéng zhú
- 金石丝竹 jīn shí sī zhú
- 青梅竹马 qīng méi zhú mǎ
- 一马平川 yī mǎ píng chuān
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