沙丁鱼
shā dīng yú
Pinyin

Definition

沙丁鱼
 - 
shā dīng yú
  1. sardine (loanword)

Character Decomposition

Related Words (20)

丁
Dīng
  1. 1 surname Ding
丁丁
Dīng dīng
  1. 1 Tintin, cartoon character
布丁
bù dīng
  1. 1 pudding (loanword)
沙
Shā
  1. 1 surname Sha
沙场
shā chǎng
  1. 1 sandpit
  2. 2 battleground
  3. 3 battlefield
沙子
shā zi
  1. 1 sand
  2. 2 grit
  3. 3 CL:粒[lì],把[bǎ]
沙拉
shā lā
  1. 1 salad (loanword)
沙漠
shā mò
  1. 1 desert
  2. 2 CL:個|个[gè]
沙滩
shā tān
  1. 1 beach
  2. 2 sandy shore
  3. 3 CL:片[piàn]
沙发
shā fā
  1. 1 sofa (loanword)
  2. 2 CL:條|条[tiáo],張|张[zhāng]
  3. 3 (Internet slang) the first reply or replier to a forum post
长沙
Cháng shā
  1. 1 Changsha prefecture-level city and capital of Hunan province in south central China
丁字裤
dīng zì kù
  1. 1 thong (underwear)
丁磊
Dīng Lěi
  1. 1 Ding Lei (1971-), founder and CEO of NetEase 網易|网易[Wǎng yì]
丁香
dīng xiāng
  1. 1 lilac (Syringia vulgaris)
  2. 2 clove (Eugenia aromatica)
丁点
dīng diǎn
  1. 1 tiny bit
亚丁
Yà dīng
  1. 1 Aden
人丁
rén dīng
  1. 1 number of people in a family
  2. 2 population
  3. 3 (old) adult males
  4. 4 male servants
但丁
Dàn dīng
  1. 1 Dante Alighieri (1265-1321), Italian poet, author of the Divine Comedy 神曲
冰沙
bīng shā
  1. 1 slushie
  2. 2 smoothie
  3. 3 crushed ice drink
  4. 4 frappucino
冷不丁
lěng bu dīng
  1. 1 suddenly
  2. 2 by surprise

Idioms (12)

一盘散沙
yī pán sǎn shā
  1. 1 lit. like a sheet of loose sand
  2. 2 fig. unable to cooperate (idiom)
不知丁董
bù zhī Dīng Dǒng
  1. 1 forgetting the fate of Ding and Dong (idiom)
  2. 2 unheeding the lessons of the past
付之丙丁
fù zhī bǐng dīng
  1. 1 to burn down (idiom)
含沙射影
hán shā shè yǐng
  1. 1 to attack someone by innuendo (idiom)
  2. 2 to make oblique charges
  3. 3 to make insinuations
  4. 4 to insinuate
封沙育林
fēng shā yù lín
  1. 1 to plant trees in order to stabilize sand (idiom)
恒河沙数
Héng hé shā shù
  1. 1 countless as the grains of sand in the Ganges (idiom)
战死沙场
zhàn sǐ shā chǎng
  1. 1 to die in battle (idiom)
沙盘推演
shā pán tuī yǎn
  1. 1 to plan a military mission on a sand table (idiom)
  2. 2 to rehearse a planned action or activity
  3. 3 to conduct a dry run
泥沙俱下
ní shā jù xià
  1. 1 mud and sand flow together (idiom)
  2. 2 good and bad mingle
目不识丁
mù bù shí dīng
  1. 1 lit. the eye cannot recognize the letter T (idiom); totally illiterate
眼里容不得沙子
yǎn lǐ róng bu dé shā zi
  1. 1 can't bear having grit in one's eye (idiom)
  2. 2 unable to put sth objectionable out of one's mind
  3. 3 not prepared to turn a blind eye
聚沙成塔
jù shā chéng tǎ
  1. 1 sand grains accumulate to make a tower a tower (idiom); by gathering small amounts one gets a huge quantity
  2. 2 many a mickle makes a muckle

Sample Sentences

每个文化的空间意识真是有所不同，中国别说地铁了，就是假期去郊外，也都是挤得像沙丁鱼一样，完全不留空间给人啊！
měige wénhuà de kōngjiānyìshi zhēn shì yǒusuǒbùtóng ，Zhōngguó bié shuō dìtiě le ，jiùshì jiàqī qù jiāowài ，yě dōu shì jǐ de xiàng shādīngyú yīyàng ，wánquán bù liú kōngjiān gěi rén ā ！
Every culture has a different sense of personal space. With China, it's not just the subway, if you go to the outskirts on holidays, it's as packed as a tin of sardines, they really don't leave any personal space for anyone!
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