{"path":"/entry/38864","title":"弹冠相庆 / 彈冠相慶 (tán guān xiāng qìng) — Chinese Dictionary | Flashbao","description":"弹冠相庆 / 彈冠相慶 (tán guān xiāng qìng): literally to flick dust off someone's cap (idiom) · to celebrate an official appointment. Explore meanings, example sentences and vocabulary decks.","catalog":null,"deck":null,"entry":{"reading":{"id":38864,"orthography":{"forms":{"SIMPLIFIED":["弹冠相庆"],"TRADITIONAL":["彈冠相慶"]}},"phonetic":"tán guān xiāng qìng","phoneticKey":"tan2 guan1 xiang1 qing4","meanings":{"primary":[{"qualifier":null,"synonyms":[{"segments":[{"dim":false,"runs":[{"kind":"TEXT","text":"literally to flick dust off someone's cap ","orthography":null,"phonetic":null,"phoneticKey":null,"readingId":null}]},{"dim":true,"runs":[{"kind":"TEXT","text":"(idiom)","orthography":null,"phonetic":null,"phoneticKey":null,"readingId":null}]}]},{"segments":[{"dim":false,"runs":[{"kind":"TEXT","text":"to celebrate an official appointment","orthography":null,"phonetic":null,"phoneticKey":null,"readingId":null}]}]}]},{"qualifier":null,"synonyms":[{"segments":[{"dim":false,"runs":[{"kind":"TEXT","text":"to congratulate and celebrate ","orthography":null,"phonetic":null,"phoneticKey":null,"readingId":null}]},{"dim":true,"runs":[{"kind":"TEXT","text":"(promotion, graduation and so on)","orthography":null,"phonetic":null,"phoneticKey":null,"readingId":null}]}]}]}],"additional":[],"notes":[],"variantMeanings":[]},"classifiers":[],"pos":["VERB"],"frequency":80394,"grammar":[],"spokenPhonetic":null},"otherReadings":[],"examples":[],"carriedReadings":[{"orthography":{"forms":{"SIMPLIFIED":["弹"],"TRADITIONAL":["彈"]}},"phonetic":"tán","primaryPhonetic":"dàn"}],"constructions":[],"status":null,"due":null,"reps":null,"lapses":null,"lastReview":null,"senses":[],"origins":[{"literal":null,"content":[{"type":"paragraph","text":{"simplified":"Derived from a statement illustrating the friendship between Wang Ji and Gong Yu of Western Han:","traditional":null}},{"type":"paragraph","text":{"simplified":"Originally describing friends following each other in career.","traditional":null}}],"examples":[{"text":{"simplified":"吉与贡禹为友，世称『王阳在位，贡公弹冠。』言其取舍同也。","traditional":"吉與貢禹為友，世稱『王陽在位，貢公彈冠。』言其取舍同也。"},"phonetic":"Jí yǔ Gòng Yǔ wèi yǒu, shìchēng ‘Wáng Yáng zàiwèi, Gòng gōng dànguàn.’ Yán qí qǔshě tóng yě.","english":"Wang Ji and Gong Yu were friends. It was said that \"When Wang Ji was holding his position, Gong Yu could also became an official too.\" It was also said that they had same interests.","ref":"The Book of Han, circa 1ˢᵗ century CE"}],"senseScoped":false}],"decks":[{"id":27,"sourceName":"Chengyu","name":"Chengyu"}],"vocabularyScale":null,"vocabularyLevel":null}}