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合 | gě | 100 ml / one-tenth of a peck / measure for dry grain equal to one-tenth of sheng 升 or liter, or one-hundredth dou 斗 |
斗 | dǒu | dry measure for grain equal to ten 升[sheng1] or one-tenth of a 石[dan4] / decaliter / peck / cup or dipper shaped object / old variant of 陡[dou3] |
啄 | zhuó | to peck |
派克 | Pài kè | Pike or Peck (name) / Parker Pen Company |
啄食 | zhuó shí | (of a bird) to peck at food |
斛 | hú | ancient measuring vessel / fifty liters / dry measure for grain equal to five dou 五斗 (before Tang, ten pecks) |
帣 | juàn | a bag which holds 30 pecks (i.e. approx 3 kg dry measure) |
甬 | tǒng | variant of 桶[tong3], bucket / (classifier) cubic dry measure (5 pecks 五斗, approx half-liter) |
咮 | zhòu | beak of bird / peck at |
鹐 | qiān | (of a bird) to peck / (fig.) to ridicule (sb) |
五斗米道 | Wǔ dǒu mǐ Dào | Way of the Five Pecks of Rice (Taoist movement) / Way of the Celestial Master |
为五斗米折腰 | wèi wǔ dǒu mǐ zhé yāo | (allusion to Tao Qian 陶潛|陶潜[Tao2 Qian2], who used this phrase when he resigned from government service rather than show subservience to a visiting inspector) to bow and scrape for five pecks of rice (that being a part of his salary as a local magistrate) / (fig.) to compromise one's principles for the sake of a salary |
班辈 | bān bèi | seniority in the family / pecking order |
班辈儿 | bān bèir | seniority in the family / pecking order |
艾条雀啄灸 | ài tiáo què zhuó jiǔ | "sparrow pecking" moxibustion technique (TCM) |