{"path":"/entry/120755","title":"鹊巢鸠占 / 鵲巢鳩占 (què cháo jiū zhàn) — Chinese Dictionary | Flashbao","description":"鹊巢鸠占 / 鵲巢鳩占 (què cháo jiū zhàn): the magpie made a nest, the turtledove dwells in it (idiom). Explore meanings, example sentences and vocabulary decks.","catalog":null,"deck":null,"entry":{"reading":{"id":120755,"orthography":{"forms":{"SIMPLIFIED":["鹊巢鸠占"],"TRADITIONAL":["鵲巢鳩占"]}},"phonetic":"què cháo jiū zhàn","phoneticKey":"que4 chao2 jiu1 zhan4","meanings":{"primary":[{"qualifier":null,"synonyms":[{"segments":[{"dim":false,"runs":[{"kind":"TEXT","text":"the magpie made a nest, the turtledove dwells in it ","orthography":null,"phonetic":null,"phoneticKey":null,"readingId":null}]},{"dim":true,"runs":[{"kind":"TEXT","text":"(idiom)","orthography":null,"phonetic":null,"phoneticKey":null,"readingId":null}]}]}]},{"qualifier":null,"synonyms":[{"segments":[{"dim":false,"runs":[{"kind":"TEXT","text":"to reap where one has not sown","orthography":null,"phonetic":null,"phoneticKey":null,"readingId":null}]}]}]}],"additional":[],"notes":[],"variantMeanings":[]},"classifiers":[],"pos":["NOUN","VERB"],"frequency":null,"grammar":[],"spokenPhonetic":null},"otherReadings":[],"examples":[],"carriedReadings":[],"constructions":[],"status":null,"due":null,"reps":null,"lapses":null,"lastReview":null,"senses":[],"origins":[{"literal":"the magpie's nest is occupied by the cuckoo","content":[{"type":"paragraph","text":{"simplified":"From the Classic of Poetry, poem 12 (《詩經·召南·鵲巢》):","traditional":null}},{"type":"paragraph","text":{"simplified":"鸠 (jiū) here is short for 鸤鸠 (shījiū) which was the ancient term for \"cuckoo\" instead of \"dove\" or \"pigeon\" in usual context, and this poem was referring to cuckoos' behaviour of brood parasitism.","traditional":"鳩 (jiū) here is short for 鳲鳩 (shījiū) which was the ancient term for \"cuckoo\" instead of \"dove\" or \"pigeon\" in usual context, and this poem was referring to cuckoos' behaviour of brood parasitism."}}],"examples":[{"text":{"simplified":"维鹊有巢，维鸠居之。\n之子于归，百两御之。","traditional":"維鵲有巢，維鳩居之。\n之子于歸，百兩御之。"},"phonetic":"Wéi què yǒu cháo, wéi jiū jū zhī.\nZhī zǐ yú guī, bǎi liǎng yù zhī.","english":"The nest is the magpie's; The cuckoo possesses it.\nThis young lady is going to her future home; A hundred carriages are escorting her.","ref":"The Classic of Poetry, c. 11ᵗʰ – 7ᵗʰ centuries BCE, translated based on James Legge's version"}],"senseScoped":false}],"decks":[{"id":27,"sourceName":"Chengyu","name":"Chengyu"}],"vocabularyScale":null,"vocabularyLevel":null}}