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敲门砖 (敲門磚)

qiāo mén zhuān

Definition

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

Character Decomposition

敲
=
高
+
攴
门
=
丶
+
丨
+
？
砖
=
石
+
专

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