{"path":"/entry/62500","title":"河东狮吼 / 河東獅吼 (hé dōng shī hǒu) — Chinese Dictionary | Flashbao","description":"河东狮吼 / 河東獅吼 (hé dōng shī hǒu): literally the lioness from Hedong roars (idiom). Explore meanings, example sentences and vocabulary decks.","catalog":null,"deck":null,"entry":{"reading":{"id":62500,"orthography":{"forms":{"SIMPLIFIED":["河东狮吼"],"TRADITIONAL":["河東獅吼"]}},"phonetic":"hé dōng shī hǒu","phoneticKey":"he2 dong1 shi1 hou3","meanings":{"primary":[{"qualifier":null,"synonyms":[{"segments":[{"dim":false,"runs":[{"kind":"TEXT","text":"literally the lioness from Hedong roars ","orthography":null,"phonetic":null,"phoneticKey":null,"readingId":null}]},{"dim":true,"runs":[{"kind":"TEXT","text":"(idiom)","orthography":null,"phonetic":null,"phoneticKey":null,"readingId":null}]}]}]}],"additional":[{"qualifier":null,"synonyms":[{"segments":[{"dim":false,"runs":[{"kind":"TEXT","text":"figuratively refers to a shrewish wife or a henpecked husband","orthography":null,"phonetic":null,"phoneticKey":null,"readingId":null}]}]}]}],"notes":[],"variantMeanings":[]},"classifiers":[],"pos":["NOUN"],"frequency":null,"grammar":[],"spokenPhonetic":null},"otherReadings":[],"examples":[],"carriedReadings":[],"constructions":[],"status":null,"due":null,"reps":null,"lapses":null,"lastReview":null,"senses":[],"origins":[{"literal":null,"content":[{"type":"paragraph","text":{"simplified":"From a line in Su Shi's poem 《寄吳德仁兼簡陳季常》 (\"Poem sent for Wu Deren and for Chen Jichang as well\"), depicting Chen Zao's overbearing wife, who was originally from the Hedong Commandery (translation from Qiu, 2013):","traditional":null}},{"type":"paragraph","text":{"simplified":"*","traditional":null}}],"examples":[{"text":{"simplified":"龙丘居士亦可怜，\n谈空说有夜不眠，\n忽闻河东狮子吼，\n柱杖落手心茫然。","traditional":"龍丘居士亦可憐，\n談空說有夜不眠，\n忽聞河東獅子吼，\n柱杖落手心茫然。"},"phonetic":"Lóngqiū jūshì yì kělián,\nTán kōng shuō yǒu yè bùmián,\nHū wén Hédōng shīzǐ hǒu,\nZhù zhàng luò shǒu xīn mángrán.","english":"The lay practitioner of Dragon Hill is also pitiful,\nhe stays up discoursing on emptiness and fullness all night long.\nSuddenly he hears a lion’s roar from east-of-the river,\nthe cane drops from his hand, he is at a loss.","ref":null}],"senseScoped":false}],"decks":[{"id":27,"sourceName":"Chengyu","name":"Chengyu"}],"vocabularyScale":null,"vocabularyLevel":null}}