Using your hand to grip a plum and push it down into the earth is the action of inserting or wedging something in.
插翅难飞
lit. even given wings, you couldn't fly (idiom); fig. impossible to escape
MEANING
- 壹形adjective
lit. even given wings, you couldn't fly (idiom); fig. impossible to escape
- ,。
He couldn't escape even with wings, so he could only surrender without resistance.
解字
CHARACTER ANALYSIS- 又(hand; again)ASSOCIATIVE
- 隹(short-tailed bird)RADICAL
Catching a short-tailed bird in flight with bare hands is as difficult as the challenge this character represents.
解字
CHARACTER ANALYSIS- 飛(bird flying; wings spread (pictographic))ASSOCIATIVE
Draw a picture of a bird spreading its wings and flying up into the sky.
lit. even given wings, you couldn't fly (idiom); fig. impossible to escape
MEANING
- 壹形adjective
lit. even given wings, you couldn't fly (idiom); fig. impossible to escape
- ,。
He couldn't escape even with wings, so he could only surrender without resistance.
解字
CHARACTER ANALYSIS- 又(hand; again)ASSOCIATIVE
- 隹(short-tailed bird)RADICAL
Catching a short-tailed bird in flight with bare hands is as difficult as the challenge this character represents.
解字
CHARACTER ANALYSIS- 飛(bird flying; wings spread (pictographic))ASSOCIATIVE
Draw a picture of a bird spreading its wings and flying up into the sky.
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