基本解释
拼音：dōng lín xī zhǎo
注音：ㄉㄨㄥㄌㄧㄣˊㄒㄧㄓㄠˇ
解释：原指画龙时龙体被云遮住，只是东边画一片龙鳞，西边露一只龙爪，不见龙的全身。比喻零星片段的事物。
出处：清·龚自珍《识某大令集尾》：“东云一鳞焉，西云一爪焉，使后世求之而皆在，或皆不在。”
英语：fragments
单字解释：
东
鳞
西
爪
英语解释
It originally meant that when painting a dragon, the dragon's body was covered by clouds, but a dragon scale was painted in the East and a dragon claw was exposed in the West. It's a metaphor for things in fragments.
