敲门砖

lit. a brick as a door knocker (idiom); fig. a temporary expedient / to use sb as a stepping stone to fortune

Characters and words in 敲门砖

to hit / to strike / to tap / to rap / to knock / to rip sb off / to overcharge

敲 = 攴 + 高 : Someone built a skyscraper (高) in front of the aorta (ao1) without the Queen of Hearts' (qi) consent. First the Queen angrily knocks at the door using the door knocker (攴), but as no one answers she hits (敲) the door with a battering ram.

敲

qia̅o

门

門

mén

to knock on a door

门

門

mén = m + (e)n2

surname Men

门

門

mén = m + (e)n2

gate / door / CL:扇[shan4] / gateway / doorway / CL:個|个[ge4] / opening / valve / switch / way to do something / knack / family / house / (religious) sect / school (of thought) / class / category / phylum or division (taxonomy) / classifier for large guns / classifier for lessons, subjects, branches of technology / (suffix) -gate (i.e. scandal; derived from Watergate)

Mahatma Gandhi wants his revenge on the Chinese emperor! Like a spider he sits in the upper left corner of the encampment's kitchen, ready to strike with the trap door he installed in the floor.

砖

塼

zhua̅n = zhu + an1

variant of 甎|砖[zhuan1]

砖 = 专 + 石 : The scientist (专) and Julian Giant Squid (zhu) are standing next to a rock (石) in front of the anthill (an1). They are quietly thinking for a long time, until the scientist has an idea and tells Julian Giant Squid what to do in order to create bricks (砖) out of the rock (石).

砖

甎

zhua̅n = zhu + an1

variant of 磚|砖[zhuan1]

砖

磚

zhua̅n = zhu + an1

brick / CL:塊|块[kuai4]

Words with 敲门砖

敲门砖 is not used as a component in another word.

Sentences with 敲门砖

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