joined as a string of pearls / in rapid succession / alignment / Renju, a Japanese game, also called Gomoku or five-in-a-row
鱼目混珠
yú mù hùn zhū
to pass off fish eyes for pearls / to pass off fake products as genuine (idiom)
成串
chéng chuàn
to be lined up (like a chain of islands, a string of pearls etc) / to form a cluster (like a bunch of grapes) / to come one after the other (like a series of sighs)
珠圆玉润
zhū yuán yù rùn
lit. as round as pearls and as smooth as jade (idiom) / fig. elegant and polished (of singing or writing)
classifier for coins, rings, badges, pearls, sporting medals, rockets, satellites etc / tree trunk / whip / wooden peg, used as a gag for marching soldiers (old)
对牛弹琴
duì niú tán qín
lit. to play the lute to a cow (idiom) / fig. offering a treat to an unappreciative audience / to cast pearls before swine / caviar to the general / to preach to deaf ears / to talk over sb's head
买椟还珠
mǎi dú huán zhū
to buy a wooden box and return the pearls inside / to show poor judgment (idiom)
鼎铛玉石
dǐng chēng yù shí
lit. to use a sacred tripod as cooking pot and jade as ordinary stone (idiom) / fig. a waste of precious material / casting pearls before swine
明珠暗投
míng zhū àn tóu
to cast pearls before swine (idiom) / not to get proper recognition for one's talents
cute (loanword) / (of food) having a pleasant chewiness (like mochi, tapioca pearls, taro balls etc &ndash / foods with a springy or gel-like mouthfeel) / (loanword) to cue sb
kē