擢发难数 — Chinese idiom
擢发难数
zhuó fà nán shǔ
Traditional: 擢髮難數
Meaning
- lit. as difficult to count as hair pulled from sb's head
- fig. innumerable (crimes)
Character by character
- 擢zhuóto pull up, to raise; to select
- 发fàto issue, to dispatch, to send out; hair
- 难nánhard, difficult, arduous; unable
- 数shǔcount, number, several
Idioms sharing a character
- 一言不发 yī yán bù fā
- 一语不发 yī yǔ bù fā
- 不悱不发 bù fěi bù fā
- 令人发指 lìng rén fà zhǐ
- 先发制人 xiān fā zhì rén
- 千钧一发 qiān jūn yī fà
- 升官发财 shēng guān fā cái
- 厚积薄发 hòu jī bó fā
- 大发慈悲 dà fā cí bēi
- 容光焕发 róng guāng huàn fā
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