| 脑洞大开 |
nǎo dòng dà kāi |
imaginative / to have one's mind buzzing with ideas |
| 脑 |
nǎo |
brain / mind / head / essence |
| 洞 |
dòng |
cave / hole / zero (unambiguous spoken form when spelling out numbers) / CL:个 |
| 洞 |
tóng |
used in 洪洞 (the name of a place in Shanxi) |
| 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 |
| 大开 |
dà kāi |
to open wide |
| 开 |
kāi |
to open (transitive or intransitive) / (of ships, vehicles, troops etc) to start / to turn on; to put in operation; to operate; to run / to boil / to write out (a prescription, check, invoice etc) / (directional complement) away; off / carat (gold) / abbr. for Kelvin, 开尔文 / abbr. for 开本, book format |