梅妻鶴子

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Chinese

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plum flower wife; to marry off (a daughter) crane
child; son; (noun suffix)
child; son; (noun suffix); small thing; seed; egg; 1st earthly branch; 11 p.m.–1 a.m., midnight
 
trad. (梅妻鶴子)
simp. (梅妻鹤子)
Literally: “plum wife crane child”.

Pronunciation

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Idiom

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梅妻鶴子

  1. to live as a hermit with a plum tree as one's wife and the cranes as one's children