畫荻

Chinese

		draw; picture; painting	Miscanthus sacchariflorus
trad. (畫荻)		畫	荻
simp. (画荻)		画	荻

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): huàdí

  (Zhuyin): ㄏㄨㄚˋ ㄉㄧˊ

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: huàdí
    • Zhuyin: ㄏㄨㄚˋ ㄉㄧˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: huàdí
    • Wade–Giles: hua⁴-ti²
    • Yale: hwà-dí
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: huahdyi
    • Palladius: хуади (xuadi)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /xu̯ä⁵¹ ti³⁵/

Verb

畫荻

1. to write with a reed or a straw

   • 畫荻教孤兒。 [MSC, trad.]
     画荻教孤儿。 [MSC, simp.]

     From: Zuo Xijia (左錫嘉, female poet, 1831-1894), “Miscellaneous Lines Written to Express My feelings”

     Huàdí jiào gū'ér. [Pinyin]

     With nothing to teach my orphans, I used a straw to draw characters on the ground.

Synonyms

• 荻筆／荻笔 (díbǐ)

Derived terms

• 修母畫荻／修母画荻 (xiū mǔ huàdí)
• 歐母畫荻／欧母画荻 (ōu mǔ huàdí)
• 畫荻教子／画荻教子 (huàdí jiào zǐ)