撑肠拄腹

撑肠拄腹 in English

chēng cháng zhǔ fù: (idiom) To be able to hold a great deal. It also describes someone whose stomach is extremely full after eating.

Character breakdown

撑撐 chēng to support
肠膓 cháng intestines
拄 zhǔ to lean on
腹 fù abdomen

How it used to be written

Oracle bone script 商
Clerical script 東漢
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Forms, sources and dates: the 字形演變 database of 小學堂, Academia Sinica, public domain (CC0).

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