陈谷子烂芝麻 Save Sign in to save words Traditional (Taiwan): 陳谷子爛芝麻 chéngǔzilànzhīma ㄔㄣˊ ㄍㄨˇ ˙ㄗ ㄌㄢˋ ㄓ ˙ㄇㄚ lit. stale grain, overcooked sesame (idiom) fig. the same boring old gossip Character by character 陈(chén)surname Chen 谷(gǔ)grain 子(zi)noun suffix, as in 椅子 yǐzi "chair" 烂(làn)soft 芝(zhī)Zoysia pungens 麻(ma)hemp A Chinese word or character, or English Search Sources CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0 pinyinjs, Apache-2.0