竹馬之交 Save Sign in to save words Simplified: 竹马之交 zhúmǎzhījiāo ㄓㄨˊ ㄇㄚˇ ㄓ ㄐㄧㄠ childhood friend (idiom) Character by character 竹(zhú)bamboo 馬(mǎ)surname Ma 之(zhī)(possessive particle, literary equivalent of 的 de) 交(jiāo)hand over A Chinese word or character, or English Search Sources CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0 pinyinjs, Apache-2.0