七夕节
Qī xī jié
Pinyin

Definition

七夕节
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Qī xī jié
  1. Qixi Festival or Double Seven Festival on the 7th day of the 7th lunar month
  2. girls' festival
  3. Chinese Valentine's day, when Cowherd and Weaving maid 牛郎織女|牛郎织女[niú lǎng zhī nu:3] are allowed their annual meeting

Character Decomposition

Related Words (20)

七
qī
  1. 1 seven
  2. 2 7
除夕
Chú xī
  1. 1 lunar New Year's Eve
七十
qī shí
  1. 1 seventy
  2. 2 70
七彩
qī cǎi
  1. 1 seven colors
  2. 2 a variety of colors
  3. 3 multi-colored
  4. 4 rainbow-colored
七月
Qī yuè
  1. 1 July
  2. 2 seventh month (of the lunar year)
七窍生烟
qī qiào shēng yān
  1. 1 lit. spouting smoke through the seven orifices (idiom)
  2. 2 fig. to seethe with anger
乱七八糟
luàn qī bā zāo
  1. 1 everything in disorder (idiom); in a hideous mess
  2. 2 at sixes and sevens
前夕
qián xī
  1. 1 eve
  2. 2 the day before
十七
shí qī
  1. 1 seventeen
  2. 2 17
夕
xī
  1. 1 dusk
  2. 2 evening
  3. 3 Taiwan pr. [xì]
夕阳
xī yáng
  1. 1 sunset
  2. 2 the setting sun
朝夕
zhāo xī
  1. 1 morning and night
  2. 2 all the time
一朝一夕
yī zhāo yī xī
  1. 1 lit. one morning and one evening (idiom)
  2. 2 fig. in a short period of time
  3. 3 overnight
七七事变
Qī Qī Shì biàn
  1. 1 Marco Polo Bridge Incident of 7th July 1937, regarded as the beginning of the Second Sino-Japanese War 抗日戰爭|抗日战争[Kàng Rì Zhàn zhēng]
七七八八
qī qī bā bā
  1. 1 almost
  2. 2 nearing completion
  3. 3 bits and piece
  4. 4 of all kinds
七上八下
qī shàng bā xià
  1. 1 at sixes and sevens
  2. 2 perturbed state of mind
  3. 3 in a mess
七分之一
qī fēn zhī yī
  1. 1 one seventh
七十年代
qī shí nián dài
  1. 1 the seventies
  2. 2 the 1970s
七台河市
Qī tái hé shì
  1. 1 Qitaihe prefecture level city, Heilongjiang province
七喜
Qī xǐ
  1. 1 7 Up (soft drink)
  2. 2 Hedy Holding Co., PRC computer manufacturer

Idioms (20)

一夕数惊
yī xī shù jīng
  1. 1 one scare after another (idiom)
  2. 2 in a constant state of tension
一朝一夕
yī zhāo yī xī
  1. 1 lit. one morning and one evening (idiom)
  2. 2 fig. in a short period of time
  3. 3 overnight
七手八脚
qī shǒu bā jiǎo
  1. 1 (idiom) with everyone lending a hand (eagerly but somewhat chaotically)
七扭八歪
qī niǔ bā wāi
  1. 1 misshapen
  2. 2 crooked
  3. 3 uneven (idiom)
七窍生烟
qī qiào shēng yān
  1. 1 lit. spouting smoke through the seven orifices (idiom)
  2. 2 fig. to seethe with anger
七零八落
qī líng bā luò
  1. 1 (idiom) everything broken and in disorder
三七二十一
sān qī èr shí yī
  1. 1 three sevens are twenty-one (idiom)
  2. 2 the facts of the matter
  3. 3 the actual situation
乱七八糟
luàn qī bā zāo
  1. 1 everything in disorder (idiom); in a hideous mess
  2. 2 at sixes and sevens
危在旦夕
wēi zài dàn xī
  1. 1 in imminent peril (idiom)
  2. 2 on the brink of crisis
只争朝夕
zhǐ zhēng zhāo xī
  1. 1 to seize every minute (idiom)
  2. 2 to make the best use of one's time
命在旦夕
mìng zài dàn xī
  1. 1 to be at death's door (idiom)
夕阳西下
xī yáng xī xià
  1. 1 the sun sets in the west (idiom)
天有不测风云，人有旦夕祸福
tiān yǒu bù cè fēng yún , rén yǒu dàn xī huò fú
  1. 1 fortune as unpredictable as the weather, every day may bring fortune or calamity (idiom); sth unexpected may happen at any moment
救人一命胜造七级浮屠
jiù rén yī mìng shèng zào qī jí fú tú
  1. 1 saving a life is more meritorious than building a seven-floor pagoda (idiom)
朝不保夕
zhāo bù bǎo xī
  1. 1 at dawn, not sure of lasting to evening (idiom); precarious state
  2. 2 imminent crisis
  3. 3 living from hand to mouth
朝不虑夕
zhāo bù lu:4 xī
  1. 1 at dawn, not sure of lasting to evening (idiom); precarious state
  2. 2 imminent crisis
  3. 3 living from hand to mouth
朝乾夕惕
zhāo qián xī tì
  1. 1 cautious and diligent all day long (idiom)
朝令夕改
zhāo lìng xī gǎi
  1. 1 to make frequent or unpredictable changes in policy (idiom)
朝闻夕改
zhāo wén xī gǎi
  1. 1 lit. heard in the morning and changed by the evening
  2. 2 to correct an error very quickly (idiom)
朝过夕改
zhāo guò xī gǎi
  1. 1 to correct in the evening a fault of the morning (idiom)
  2. 2 to quickly amend one's ways

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