| 癞蛤蟆想吃天鹅肉 |
lài há ma xiǎng chī tiān é ròu |
lit. the toad wants to eat swan meat (idiom) / fig. to try to punch above one's weight |
| 癞 |
lài |
scabies / skin disease |
| 癞蛤蟆 |
lài há ma |
toad |
| 蛤 |
gé |
(bound form) clam / used in 蛤蚧 |
| 蛤 |
há |
used in 蛤蟆 |
| 蛤蟆 |
há ma |
frog; toad |
| 蟆 |
má |
toad |
| 蟆 |
má |
old variant of 蟆 |
| 想 |
xiǎng |
to think (about) / to think of; to devise / to think (that); to believe (that) / to desire; to want (to) / to miss (feel wistful about the absence of) |
| 吃 |
chī |
to eat; to consume / to eat at (a cafeteria etc) / to eradicate; to destroy / to absorb / to suffer (shock, injury, defeat etc) |
| 吃 |
chī |
variant of 吃 |
| 天 |
tiān |
day / sky / heaven |
| 天鹅 |
tiān é |
swan |
| 鹅 |
é |
variant of 鹅 |
| 鹅 |
é |
goose / CL:只 |
| 鹅 |
é |
variant of 鹅 |
| 肉 |
ròu |
meat / flesh / pulp (of a fruit) / (coll.) (of a fruit) squashy / (of a person) flabby / irresolute / Kangxi radical 130 |