{"path":"/entry/20284","title":"含沙射影 (hán shā shè yǐng) — Chinese Dictionary | Flashbao","description":"含沙射影 (hán shā shè yǐng): to attack someone by innuendo · to make insinuations. Explore meanings, example sentences and vocabulary decks.","catalog":null,"deck":null,"entry":{"reading":{"id":20284,"orthography":{"forms":{"SIMPLIFIED":["含沙射影"],"TRADITIONAL":["含沙射影"]}},"phonetic":"hán shā shè yǐng","phoneticKey":"han2 sha1 she4 ying3","meanings":{"primary":[{"qualifier":{"segments":[{"dim":false,"runs":[{"kind":"TEXT","text":"idiom","orthography":null,"phonetic":null,"phoneticKey":null,"readingId":null}]}]},"synonyms":[{"segments":[{"dim":false,"runs":[{"kind":"TEXT","text":"to attack someone by innuendo","orthography":null,"phonetic":null,"phoneticKey":null,"readingId":null}]}]},{"segments":[{"dim":false,"runs":[{"kind":"TEXT","text":"to make insinuations","orthography":null,"phonetic":null,"phoneticKey":null,"readingId":null}]}]}]}],"additional":[],"notes":[],"variantMeanings":[]},"classifiers":[],"pos":["VERB"],"frequency":null,"grammar":[],"spokenPhonetic":null},"otherReadings":[],"examples":[],"carriedReadings":[],"constructions":[],"status":null,"due":null,"reps":null,"lapses":null,"lastReview":null,"senses":[],"origins":[{"literal":"to hold sand in the mouth and splash onto someone's shadow","content":[{"type":"paragraph","text":{"simplified":"From a kind of mythological creature called 蜮 (yù), as in In Search of the Sacred:","traditional":null}},{"type":"paragraph","text":{"simplified":"This thing also appears in the Book of Odes.","traditional":null}}],"examples":[{"text":{"simplified":"有物处于江水，其名曰“蜮”，一曰“短狐”，能含沙射人。所中者则身体筋急，头痛发热，剧者至死。","traditional":"有物處於江水，其名曰“蜮”，一曰“短狐”，能含沙射人。所中者則身體筋急，頭痛發熱，劇者至死。"},"phonetic":"Yǒu wù chǔyú jiāngshuǐ, qí míng yuē “yù”, yī yuē “duǎnhú”, néng hán shā shè rén. Suǒ zhòng zhě zé shēntǐ jīn jí, tóutòng fārè, jù zhě zhì sǐ.","english":"In the Yangtze River lived a strange thing called yu, aka. duanhu, which could shoot people with the sand kept in its mouth. One who was hit would have convulsions, headaches and a high temperature, and in the worst case—death.","ref":"In Search of the Sacred, circa 3ʳᵈ century CE"}],"senseScoped":false}],"decks":[{"id":27,"sourceName":"Chengyu","name":"Chengyu"}],"vocabularyScale":null,"vocabularyLevel":null}}