敲门砖

敲門磚

qiāo mén zhuān

Meanings

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qiāo mén zhuān

1.lit. a brick as a door knocker (idiom); fig. a temporary expedient
2.to use sb as a stepping stone to fortune

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Wiktionary

1.stepping stone to success

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Stroke order

Components

敲高攴

门㇔㇑㇆

砖石专

Components from cjk-decomp · MIT

Characters

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