| 兔 | 732A50 50.70 | 部居  | 畫數 8 | ㄊㄨˋ [tu4] . [Var.  ] | ||
| N. | ([tu4zi0], [er0]) Rabbit, hare: 家兔 rabbit; 野兔 hare; 玉兔 the rabbit in the moon, (poet.) the moon; 兔兒爺 [tu4er0ye2]↓; 兔死狐悲 the fox is sad at death of hare--sympathy for one of its kind; 兔死狗烹 cook the hound (as no longer needed) when the hares have been run down--allu. when country was unified, the king killed off his underlings; 兔起鶻落 the moment a hare is flushed out, the falcon swoops down--said of quick flow of writer's thoughts and imagination; 脫兔 (fig.) swift-footed hare, which has escaped a chase. | |||||
| Words | 1. 兔脣 [tu4chun2], adj., hare-lipped. 2. 兔缺 [tu4qUe1], adj., ditto. 3. 兔毫 [tu4hao2], n., writing brush made of rabbit's hair. 4. 兔葵 [tu4kui2], n., (1) (zoo.) the sea anemone; (2) (bot.) the winter aconite (also wr. 菟葵). 5. 兔兒爺 [tu4er0ye2] n., (1) clay rabbit at Mid-Autumn Festival; (2) (coll.) a pederast. 6. 兔絲 [tu4si1], n., the dodder (also wr. 菟絲). 7. 兔脫 [tu4tuo1], v.i., make good one's escape. 8. 兔子 [tu4zi0], n., rabbit. 9. 兔園策 [tu4yUan2ce4] n., popular books for villagers; chapbooks (also wr. 兔園冊). | |||||