鼓盆之戚
Traditional form:
鼓盆之戚
Pinyin (reading):
gǔpénzhīqī
Definitions:
- drumming on a bowl in grief (idiom, refers to Zhuangzi 莊子／庄子 ( Zhuāngzǐ) grieving for his lost wife)
- fig. grief for a lost wife
Characters:
- 鼓 - drum; to beat, to strike; to rouse
- 盆 - basin, bowl, pot, tub
- 之 - marks preceding phrase as modifier of following phrase; it, him her, them; to go to
- 戚 - ashamed, grieving; related to; relative
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