chuí xián sān chǐ

垂涎三尺 (chuí xián sān chǐ) is a Chinese word meaning “to drool (over) (idiom); to yearn for; to covet”.

Meanings

  1. 1to drool (over) (idiom)
  2. 2to yearn for
  3. 3to covet
  4. 4to crave

Characters in 垂涎三尺

垂chuí · to hang (down)涎xián · saliva三sān · three尺chě · one of the characters used to represent a musical note in gongche notation, 工尺譜|工尺谱[gong1 che3 pu3]

Related words

三three三surname San英尺foot (unit of length equal to 0.3048 m)三明治(loanword) sandwich尺one of the characters used to represent a musical note in gongche notation, 工尺譜|工尺谱[gong1 che3 pu3]尺a Chinese foot三十thirty星期三Wednesday尺寸size; dimensions; measurements (esp. of clothes)周三Wednesday垂to hang (down)三角triangle

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