- 子(child (pictographic))
The character 子 depicts a newborn child with a large head and arms outstretched.
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lit. the boot hits the floor (idiom)
The boot has landed, and finally I can relax.
fig. a much-anticipated, impactful development has finally occurred (an allusion to a joke from the 1950s in which a young man would take off a boot and throw it onto the floor, waking the old man sleeping downstairs who could then not get back to sleep until he had heard the second boot hit the floor)
The shoe has dropped, and we can finally relax.
lit. the boot hits the floor (idiom)
The boot has landed, and finally I can relax.
fig. a much-anticipated, impactful development has finally occurred (an allusion to a joke from the 1950s in which a young man would take off a boot and throw it onto the floor, waking the old man sleeping downstairs who could then not get back to sleep until he had heard the second boot hit the floor)
The shoe has dropped, and we can finally relax.
The character 子 depicts a newborn child with a large head and arms outstretched.
Leaves falling from a tree like water flowing in a river expresses the meaning of the character for falling.
The wide earth (soil) is also where all things flourish and grow.
The character 子 depicts a newborn child with a large head and arms outstretched.
Leaves falling from a tree like water flowing in a river expresses the meaning of the character for falling.
The wide earth (soil) is also where all things flourish and grow.
lit. the boot hits the floor (idiom)
lit. the boot hits the floor (idiom)
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