To hide, you curl your body inward like a flower closing its petals.
躲年
to avoid going home for the Chinese New Year (for any of various reasons: because one finds the festivities onerous in some way, or because it would be seen as inauspicious for one to attend, or, in former times, to avoid creditors, since it was the custom to have debts settled before New Year's Day, and once into the New Year, debtors got a reprieve)
MEANING
- 壹动verb
to avoid going home for the Chinese New Year (for any of various reasons: because one finds the festivities onerous in some way, or because it would be seen as inauspicious for one to attend, or, in former times, to avoid creditors, since it was the custom to have debts settled before New Year's Day, and once into the New Year, debtors got a reprieve)
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He avoided the Chinese New Year by not going home.
解字
CHARACTER ANALYSIS- 干(rice plant; grain stalk)ASSOCIATIVE
A mature grain stalk represents one harvest season, which symbolizes one year.
to avoid going home for the Chinese New Year (for any of various reasons: because one finds the festivities onerous in some way, or because it would be seen as inauspicious for one to attend, or, in former times, to avoid creditors, since it was the custom to have debts settled before New Year's Day, and once into the New Year, debtors got a reprieve)
MEANING
- 壹动verb
to avoid going home for the Chinese New Year (for any of various reasons: because one finds the festivities onerous in some way, or because it would be seen as inauspicious for one to attend, or, in former times, to avoid creditors, since it was the custom to have debts settled before New Year's Day, and once into the New Year, debtors got a reprieve)
- ,。
He avoided the Chinese New Year by not going home.
解字
CHARACTER ANALYSIS- 干(rice plant; grain stalk)ASSOCIATIVE
A mature grain stalk represents one harvest season, which symbolizes one year.
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