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木きに竹たけを接つぐ
Meanings
Expression
Verb (5-dan, ぐ)
Idiomatic
1. to sew a fox's skin to the lion's; (lit.) to graft a bamboo shoot on a tree
Kanji used
木
tree
竹
bamboo
接
come in contact
Conjugations...Used in: 1
Composed of
tree; shrub; bush; wood; timber
bamboo (any grass of subfamily Bambusoideae); middle (of a three-tier ranking system)
to join; to piece together; to set (bones); to graft (onto a tree)