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Etymology
A bird 鳥 with a strange head
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Words with 焉 52 total
Idioms with 焉 14 total Chain
How do you catch the tiger cub without entering the tiger's lair? (idiom); Nothing ventured, nothing gained.不入虎穴，焉得虎子bù rù hǔ xué , yān dé hǔ zǐlit. why use a pole-ax to slaughter a chicken? (idiom) · fig. to waste effort on a trifling matter割鸡焉用牛刀gē jī yān yòng niú dāoa thing cannot exist without its basis · with the skin gone, what can the hair adhere to皮之不存，毛将焉附pí zhī bù cún，máo jiāng yān fùloss sometimes spells gain · when the old man on the frontier lost his mare, who could have guessed it was a blessing in disguise? - a loss may turn out to be a gain · nothing so bad as not to be good for something塞翁失马，焉知非福sài wēng shī mǎ，yān zhī fēi fúdon't use a sledgehammer on a nut · aquila non capit muscam杀鸡焉用牛刀shā jī yān yòng niú dāotoo accustomed to something to call it in question习焉不察xī yān bù chá
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