| 竖起大拇指 |
shù qǐ dà mu zhǐ |
to give a thumbs-up / to express one's approval |
| 竖 |
shù |
variant of 竖 |
| 竖 |
shù |
to erect / vertical / vertical stroke (in Chinese characters) |
| 竖起 |
shù qǐ |
to erect (a tent etc) / to prick up (one's ears) / to raise (one's eyebrows) / to stick up (one's thumb) / to turn up (one's collar) / (of a bird) to puff up (one's feathers) |
| 起 |
qǐ |
to rise / to raise / to get up / to set out / to start / to appear / to launch / to initiate (action) / to draft / to establish / to get (from a depot or counter) / verb suffix, to start / starting from (a time, place, price etc) / classifier for occurrences or unpredictable events: case, instance / classifier for groups: batch, group |
| 大 |
dà |
big; large; great / older (than another person) / eldest (as in 大姐) / greatly; freely; fully / (dialect) father / (dialect) uncle (father's brother) |
| 大 |
dài |
see 大夫 |
| 大拇指 |
Dà mu zhǐ |
Tom Thumb (small person in folk tales) |
| 大拇指 |
dà mu zhǐ |
thumb |
| 拇 |
mǔ |
thumb / big toe |
| 拇指 |
mǔ zhǐ |
thumb / big toe |
| 指 |
zhǐ |
finger / to point at or to / to indicate or refer to / to depend on / to count on / (of hair) to stand on end |