深藏若虛

to hide one's treasure away so that no-one knows about it (idiom); fig. modest about one's talents / to hide one's light under a bushel

Characters and words in 深藏若虛

old variant of 深[shen1]
deep / depth / deeply / (of a color) dark / deep / rich

= + + + : In front of the encampment ((e)n1) an eight ball (八) has been fixed to the top of a Christmas tree (木), and on top of the eight ball a cooking top is balanced carefully so that it doesn't topple over. On the cooking top a lot of water bottles (氵) are standing so that everything is perfectly balanced. As Sherlock Holmes (sh) comes along he finds that this construction is very interesting, and he makes a profound (深) mistake with a deep (深) impact: as he takes down only one of the bottles the whole thing collapses and all the other bottles break as they fall on the ground. Soon, Sherlock Holmes is in deep (深) trouble as the water from the water bottles gets deeper and deeper (深).

= + : Sherlock Holmes (sh) finds a grease fire in front of the encampment ((e)n1). He wants to put it out, but he knows that you shouldn't directly pour water in a grease fire. Instead, to keep a distance from the fire, he pours bottled water (氵) through the top of the chimney above the kitchen range (罙). Soon, the kitchen range is submerged in deep (深) water.
deep (lit. and fig.)
to be deeply hidden / to lie deep (in some place)
Tibet / abbr. for Xizang or Tibet Autonomous Region 西藏[Xi1 zang4]

= + : Zorro (z) found some very nice and good (臧) artificial lawn (艹) in the Anchor Wat. In the bathroom (ang4), he secretly built a storehouse (藏) to hide the artificial lawn.
to conceal / to hide away / to harbor / to store / to collect

= + : The King of Chu (c) got into a security inspection Just inside the anglepod's kitchen (ang2). He just got some very nice and good (臧) artificial lawn (艹) which would be taken away, so he tries to hide (藏) it in his beard.
storehouse / depository / Buddhist or Taoist scripture

= + : Zorro (z) found some very nice and good (臧) artificial lawn (艹) in the Anchor Wat. In the bathroom (ang4), he secretly built a storehouse (藏) to hide the artificial lawn.
to seem / like / as / if

= + : Mnemonic symbol: a wooden chicken as in 呆若木鸡, "dumb as a wooden chicken".

A nazi wants to beat up a wooden chicken in the observatory's bathroom for being different, but just as he charges across a sheet of artificial lawn Rachel Rhinoceros pulls she sheet from under his feet and lets him topple head-first to the ground. She thinks that the nazi is truly as dumb as a wooden chicken.
emptiness / void / abstract theory or guiding principles / empty or unoccupied / diffident or timid / false / humble or modest / (of health) weak / virtual / in vain

= + : Xu Xian (xu) and the bullfrog (业) were preparing for a football game in front of the space station (Ø1) and had already painted eye black stripes (虍) onto each other when suddenly a black hole (虚) appeared and sucked their eye black off again before collapsing.

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