葫芦里卖的什么药

葫蘆裡賣的甚麼藥
hulúmàideshénmeyào

not knowing what another is planning or thinking

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Entry Composition

1 葫芦 lu
  1. calabash or bottle gourd (Lagenaria siceraria)
  2. hoist
  3. generic term for block and tackle (or parts thereof)
  4. muddled
  5. (poker) full house
=2 variant of
=2
  1. lining
  2. interior
  3. inside
  4. internal
  5. also written
=2 Li (surname)
=2
  1. li, ancient measure of length, approx. 500 m
  2. neighborhood
  3. ancient administrative unit of 25 families
  4. (Tw) borough, administrative unit between the township zhèn and neighborhood lín levels
=3 mài
  1. to sell
  2. to betray
  3. to spare no effort
  4. to show off or flaunt
=3
  1. (historical dictionaries only) to hawk; to peddle in the street
  2. Original form of (yù, “to sell”).
  3. alternative form of /𰂏 (yù, “to sell”)
  4. to hawk; to peddle in the street
=4 de
  1. of; ~'s (possessive particle)
  2. (used after an attribute when it modifies a noun)
  3. (used at the end of a declarative sentence for emphasis)
  4. (used after a noun, verb or adjective to form a nominal expression, as in 皮革的 de "one made of leather" or 跑堂儿的 pǎotángrde "a waiter (literally, one who runs back and forth in a restaurant)" or 新的 xīnde "new one")
  5. also pr. or di in poetry and songs
=4 a taxi; a cab (abbr. for 的士 shì)
=4 really and truly
=4 (bound form) bull's-eye; target
5 什么 shénme
  1. what?
  2. something; anything
=6 yào
  1. leaf of the iris
  2. variant of yào
=6 yào
  1. medicine
  2. drug
  3. substance used for a specific purpose (e.g. poisoning, explosion, fermenting)
  4. to poison

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