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Chinese
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perspiration; sweat
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ox; cow; bull
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fill; satisfy; fulfil fill; satisfy; fulfil; to act in place of; substitute; sufficient; full |
roof beam
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| trad. (汗牛充棟)
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汗
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牛
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充
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棟
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| simp. (汗牛充栋)
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汗
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牛
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充
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栋
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| Literally: “(enough books) to make a pack-ox sweat or to fill a house to the rafters”.
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Pronunciation
Idiom
汗牛充棟
- (figurative, of books) to be numerous