"stony-broke" Chinese-English Dictionary

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Chinese Pinyin Translation Actions
不名一文 bù míng yī wén without a penny to one's name / penniless / stony-broke syn
Chinese Pinyin Translation Actions
豁出去 huō chu qu to throw caution to the wind / to press one's luck / to go for broke syn
刘裕 劉裕 liú yù Liu Yu, founder of Song of the Southern dynasties 劉宋|刘宋[Liu2 Song4], broke away from Eastern Jin in 420, reigned as Emperor Wu of Song 宋武帝[Song4 Wu3 di4]
崔嵬 cuī wéi stony mound / rocky mountain / lofty / towering syn
qiāo stony soil
wěi rocky / stony
石珊瑚 shí shān hú stony coral
石质 石質 shí zhì stony
孟姜女 mèng jiāng nǚ heroine of Qin dynasty 秦朝 folk tale, who searched for her husband, and whose tears broke down a stretch of the Great Wall to reveal his body
宋武帝 sòng wǔ dì Emperor Wu of Song (363-422), personal name Liu Yu 劉裕|刘裕[Liu2 Yu4], founder of Song of the Southern dynasties 劉宋|刘宋[Liu2 Song4], broke away from Eastern Jin in 420, reigned 420-422
宋武帝刘裕 宋武帝劉裕 sòng wǔ dì liú yù Liu Yu, founder of Southern dynasty Song 劉宋|刘宋, broke away from Eastern Jin in 420
精打光 jīng dǎ guāng with absolutely nothing / completely broke
压死骆驼的最后一根稻草 壓死駱駝的最後一根稻草 yā sǐ luò tuo de zuì hòu yī gēn dào cǎo the straw that broke the camel’s back (idiom) / the final straw
乐昌破镜 樂昌破鏡 lè chāng - pò jìng lit. the story of the broken mirror of Princess Lechang 樂昌公主|乐昌公主[Le4chang1 Gong1zhu3] (In the tale, the princess and her husband, fearing separation during the turbulence of war, broke a bronze mirror in half. They each kept one half as a token, with the promise to reunite by matching the pieces together. They were indeed separated, but eventually reunited, with the mirror playing a crucial role in their reunion.) (idiom) / fig. the reunion of separated lovers or the restoration of a relationship
qiāo stony soil
石状 石狀 shí zhuàng stony
què (of land) barren / stony
stony hill / rocky mountain / (used in place names)
The four tones The four tones of Mandarin Pitch over time: tone 1 high and level (red), tone 2 rising (orange), tone 3 falling then rising (green), tone 4 falling (blue). tone 1 tone 2 tone 3 tone 4 Time Pitch

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