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Character « 蜉 »

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Character
蜉
(13 stroke)
Radical
虫
(+7 stroke)
Pinyin
fú
liè

Input methods

WubiJEBG
CangjieLIBND
Bishun2512143443521
Sijiao52147
UnicodeU+8709

蜉 (蜉) fú

General meaning
Definitions
Vocabulary

◎ 〔～蝣〕昆虫，幼虫生在水中，成虫褐绿色，有翅两对，在水面飞行。成虫生存期极短，交尾产卵后即死。
◎ 〔蚍～〕见“蚍”。

Noun

同本义 [mayfly]。如:蜉蝣羽(比喻只顾目前,不图将来的人);蜉蝣撼大树(比喻自不量力)

蚍蜉 pí fú
[a species of big ant] 一种大蚂蚁
撼树蚍蜉 ( 撼樹蚍蜉 ) hàn shù -pí fú
[an ant trying to shake a tree-ridiculously overrating oneself] 蚍蜉:一种大蚂蚁。蚍蜉想摇动大树。比喻不自量力者
蚍蜉撼大树 ( 蚍蜉撼大樹 ) pí fú hàn dà shù
1. [an ant trying to shake a big tree—ridiculously overrating one's own strength;futile effort] 撼:摇动。蚂蚁想摇动大树。比喻不自量力
  
  蚍蜉撼大树,可笑不自量。——唐· 韩愈《昌黎先生集》
2. 亦作“蚍蜉撼树”