"捉襟肘見" meaning in 漢語

See 捉襟肘見 in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Phrase

IPA: /ʈ͡ʂu̯ɔ⁵⁵ t͡ɕin⁵⁵ ʈ͡ʂoʊ̯²¹⁴⁻²¹ t͡ɕi̯ɛn⁵¹/ [Mandarin, Standard-Chinese, Sinological-IPA], /ʈ͡ʂu̯ɔ⁵⁵ t͡ɕin⁵⁵ ʈ͡ʂoʊ̯²¹⁴⁻²¹ ɕi̯ɛn⁵¹/ [Mandarin, Standard-Chinese, Sinological-IPA] Forms: 捉襟肘见 [Simplified-Chinese]
Etymology: 出自《莊子.讓王》:
  1. 捉襟見肘/捉襟见肘之同義詞 Tags: figuratively, form-of Form of: 捉襟见肘
    Sense id: zh-捉襟肘見-zh-phrase-J55Ry~9- Categories (other): 有引文的官話詞
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
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      "roman": "Shínián bù zhìyī, zhèng guàn ér yīng jué, zhuō jīn ér zhǒu jiàn.",
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      "zh_pron": "ㄓㄨㄛ ㄐㄧㄣ ㄓㄡˇ ㄒㄧㄢˋ"
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      "ipa": "/ʈ͡ʂu̯ɔ⁵⁵ t͡ɕin⁵⁵ ʈ͡ʂoʊ̯²¹⁴⁻²¹ ɕi̯ɛn⁵¹/",
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    "帶「襟」的漢語詞",
    "帶「見」的漢語詞",
    "有1個詞條的頁面",
    "有國際音標的漢語詞",
    "有多個讀音的官話詞",
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      "zh_pron": "ㄓㄨㄛ ㄐㄧㄣ ㄓㄡˇ ㄒㄧㄢˋ"
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      "zh_pron": "cho¹-chin¹-chou³-chien⁴"
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      "zh_pron": "ㄓㄨㄛ ㄐㄧㄣ ㄓㄡˇ ㄒㄧㄢˋ"
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    {
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        "Gwoyeu-Romatsyh"
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      "zh_pron": "juojinjooushiann"
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        "Standard-Chinese",
        "Cyrillic"
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    },
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  "word": "捉襟肘見"
}

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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable 漢語 dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-08-28 from the zhwiktionary dump dated 2025-08-22 using wiktextract (ffdbfc3 and b9346a0). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.