怀里的笊篱,捞心
懷裡的笊籬,撈心
懷裏的笊籬,撈心
a strainer ladle in one's bosom: scoops (toils) the heart
Saying俗语俗語
Two-part saying歇后语歇後語 · Rarely used now
- Meaning
- Describes worrying and taking great pains over something. Light, sympathetic.
- Wordplay
- 捞 (lāo, to scoop) is close in sound to 劳 (láo, to toil), so 捞心 sounds like 劳心 'to tax one's mind'.
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- Simplified
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怀里的笊篱,捞心
- Traditional (Taiwan)
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懷裡的笊籬,撈心
- Traditional (Hong Kong)
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懷裏的笊籬,撈心
- Pinyin
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huáilǐ de zhàoli,lāo xīn
- Bopomofo
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ㄏㄨㄞˊ ㄌㄧˇ ˙ㄉㄜ ㄓㄠˋ ˙ㄌㄧ,ㄌㄠ ㄒㄧㄣ
Written with
HSK 7-9 vocabulary,
at CEFR level
C1.
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