转蓬身

轉蓬身
zhuǎnpéngshēn
idiom

Meanings

  1. 1 a drifter; a wanderer rolling from place to place

Examples

Bànshēng zhuǎnpéngshēn, méi yí chù shì zhēnzhèng de jiā.
Half a life as a tumbleweed — nowhere really felt like home.
Zhànluàn niándài, duōshǎo rén dōu chéng le zhuǎnpéngshēn.
In those years of war, so many people became drifters.

Tips

culture
is the tumbleweed-like herb that rolls with the wind when it dries. appears across Tang poetry (Cao Zhi, Du Fu, Bai Juyi) as the classic image of rootless wandering. Literary, not conversational.

Stroke Order

zhuǎn
péng
shēn