买椟还珠

买
買
椟
櫝
还
還
珠
珠
to buy a wooden box and return the pearls inside / to show poor judgment (idiom)

Characters and words in 买椟还珠

买
買
mǎi = m + ai3
to buy / to purchase
买 = ㇖ + 头 : Mahatma Gandhi visits the airplane. He sees a neat skull and a nice sickle, and he asks for the price, because he wants to buy them both.
椟
櫝
dú = du + Ø2
cabinet / case / casket
还
還
huán = hu + an2
surname Huan
还
還
hái = h + ai2
still / still in progress / still more / yet / even more / in addition / fairly / passably (good) / as early as / even / also / else
还 = 不 + 辶 : Hamlet sees an early exhibit of king Leonidas' gladiator sandals in the airplane's kitchen. However, the exhibition is still not set up but in the progress of being set up, so there's a big sign showing that it's forbidden to touch the sandals.
还
還
huán = hu + an2
to pay back / to return
珠
zhu̅ = zhu + Ø1
bead / pearl / CL:粒[li4],顆|颗[ke1]
珠 = 朱 + 王 : Julian Giant Squid (zhu), a vermilion flycatcher (朱) and Martin Luther King (王) are playing catch with a black pearl (珠) in front of the space station (Ø1).

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