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cogongrass (Imperata cylindrica), used as thatching material in China and Indonesia
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *茨* | 茨* | *茨
Caltrop or puncture vine (Tribulus terrestris) / to thatch (a roof)
matted (of straw or hair) / unkempt / overgrown / scraggly / thatch
venturing from one's thatched hut for the first time (idiom) / young and inexperienced / novice / greenhorn
thatched cottage
Thatcher (name) / Baroness Thatcher or Margaret Thatcher (1925-2013), British conservative politician, prime minister 1979-1990
toilet (rural euphemism) / thatched hut or house
thatched hut
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *苫* | 苫* | *苫
straw mat / thatch
thatched shed
thatched house / poor person's house / humble home
thatched house, broken urn windows (idiom); poor person's house / humble home
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *茆* | 茆* | *茆
variant of / thatch
lit. earthen steps and a thatched hut / frugal living conditions (idiom)
Ji Yun (1724-1805), Qing Dynasty writer, author of supernatural novel Notes on a Minutely Observed Thatched Hut 閱微草堂筆記|阅微草堂笔记
Notes on a Minutely Observed Thatched Hut by Ji Yun 紀昀|纪昀, novel of the supernatural / The Thatched Study of Close Scrutiny
Mrs Thatcher / Baroness Thatcher or Margaret Thatcher (1925-2013), British conservative politician, prime minister 1979-1990
bundled thatch
lit. to make three visits to the thatched cottage (idiom) (allusion to an episode in Romance of the Three Kingdoms 三國演義|三国演义 in which Liu Bei 劉備|刘备 recruits Zhuge Liang 諸葛亮|诸葛亮 to his cause by visiting him three times) / fig. to make earnest and repeated requests of sb
Du Fu's Thatched Cottage (park and museum in Chengdu)
thatched roof
thatched cottage
pauper's thatched hut


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