冬烘

dōnghōng
  1. shallow
  2. uneducated

CEDICT

  1. pedantic; trite
  2. shallow; uneducated

Wiktionary

糊塗、迂腐。唐鄭薰主持考試，誤以為顏標是魯公（顏真卿）的後代，把他取為狀元。當時有人作詩嘲笑：「主司頭腦太冬烘，錯認顏標作魯公。」見五代漢．王定保《唐摭言．卷八．誤放》。後多用來嘲笑古代私塾老師，或不明事理、不識世務的書呆子。宋．范成大〈四時田園雜興〉詩：「長官頭腦冬烘甚，乞汝青銅買酒迴。」

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Entry Composition

=1 冬 dōng winter
=1 冬 dōng
  1. (onom.) beating a drum
  2. rat-a-tat
2 烘 hōng
  1. to bake
  2. to heat by fire
  3. to set off by contrast

Related entries

半間不界 bàngānbùgà
  1. shallow
  2. not thorough
  3. superficial
淺 qiǎn
  1. shallow
  2. light (color)
这条河浅吗？

Is this river shallow?

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空疏 kōngshū
  1. shallow
  2. empty
粗淺 cūqiǎn
  1. shallow
  2. superficial
謭 jiǎn
  1. shallow
  2. superficial
俴 jiàn
  1. short
  2. shallow
  3. thin plate
鄙陋 bǐlòu
  1. superficial
  2. shallow
浮泛 fúfàn
  1. to float about
  2. (of a feeling) to show on the face
  3. (of speech, friendship etc) shallow
  4. vague
空泛 kōngfàn
  1. vague and general
  2. not specific
  3. shallow
  4. empty
粗陋 cūlòu
  1. crude
  2. coarse
  3. unsophisticated
  4. shallow