篮子里装土地爷,提神
籃子里裝土地爺,提神
籃子里裝土地爺,提神
carrying the Earth God in a basket: lifting the spirit
Saying俗语俗語
Two-part saying歇后语歇後語 · Rarely used now
- Meaning
- Said of something that wakes you up or lifts your spirits, such as tea, a joke or good news. Humorous.
- Wordplay
- 提神 (tíshén) is read as 提 'carry, lift' plus 神 'god', so the basket carries a god, while as a compound it means 'to perk up, refresh the spirit'.
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- Simplified
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篮子里装土地爷,提神
- Traditional (Taiwan)
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籃子里裝土地爺,提神
- Pinyin
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lánzi lǐ zhuāng tǔdìyé,tíshén
- Bopomofo
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ㄌㄢˊ ˙ㄗ ㄌㄧˇ ㄓㄨㄤ ㄊㄨˇ ㄉㄧˋ ㄧㄝˊ,ㄊㄧˊ ㄕㄣˊ
Written with
HSK 4 vocabulary,
at CEFR level
B1.
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