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一鳞半爪
yī lín bàn zhǎo
What 一鳞半爪 means
- lit. one scale and half a claw (idiom)
- fig. only odd bits and pieces
The characters in 一鳞半爪
- 一yīone; single; a (article)
- 鳞línscales (of fish, snakes etc)
- 半bànhalf; semi-; incomplete
- 爪zhuǎ(colloquial) foot of an animal or bird; (colloquial) foot supporting a cooking pot etc
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