白費唇舌

白
白
费
費
唇
唇
舌
舌
to whistle down the wind / to waste one's breath (idiom)

Characters and words in 白費唇舌

白
bái = b + ai2
white / snowy / pure / bright / empty / blank / plain / clear / to make clear / in vain / gratuitous / free of charge / reactionary / anti-communist / funeral / to stare coldly / to write wrong character / to state / to explain / vernacular / spoken lines in opera
白 = 丶 + 日 : Mnemonic symbol: a white flag. The sun (日) is waving with a white (白) flag (白) in the airplane's kitchen (ai2) while Beelzebub (b) is beating them with a big petal leaf (丶).
白
白
费
費
to waste (one's energy etc)
费
費
fèi = f + ei4
surname Fei
费
費
fèi = f + ei4
to cost / to spend / fee / wasteful / expenses
费 = 弗 + 贝 : Frankenstein's monster finds that here is a crab in a woven basket for sale in the Eiffel Tower's bathroom. He feels sorry for the crab, spends a lot of money to purchase it and releases it into freedom.
唇
chún = chu + (e)n2
lip
唇 = 口 + 辰 : Chantal Chicken (chu) celebrates her birthday in the encampment's kitchen ((e)n2) with a birthday cake (辰) made of mandarins (口). As she eats the cake her whole lips (唇) get orange (口) with cake.
唇
脣
chún = chu + (e)n2
variant of 唇[chun2]
唇 = 口 + 辰 : Chantal Chicken (chu) celebrates her birthday in the encampment's kitchen ((e)n2) with a birthday cake (辰) made of mandarins (口). As she eats the cake her whole lips (唇) get orange (口) with cake.
费
費
唇
唇
舌
舌
to argue needlessly / to waste time explaining
唇
舌
argument / words / lips and tongue
舌
ji̅ = ji + Ø1
used in 喇舌[la3 ji1] to transcribe the Taiwanese word for "tongue"
舌
shé = sh + e2
tongue
舌 = 千 + 口 : Sherlock Holmes squashed his tongue under a kilo just inside the elevator's kitchen! He tries to stem the kilo with a mandarin, but not very successfully.

Words with 白費唇舌

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Sentences with 白費唇舌

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