拼火
pīn huǒ
Pinyin
Definition
拼火
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- to exchange fire
Character Decomposition
Related Words (20)
- 1 to get angry
- 2 to suffer from excessive internal heat (TCM)
- 1 to piece together
- 2 to join together
- 3 to stake all
- 4 adventurous
- 5 at the risk of one's life
- 6 to spell
- 1 to do one's utmost
- 2 with all one's might
- 3 at all costs
- 4 (to work or fight) as if one's life depends on it
- 1 jigsaw puzzle
- 1 to struggle
- 2 to wrestle
Idioms (20)
不到火候不揭锅
- 1 don't act until the time is ripe (idiom)
刀山火海
- 1 lit. mountains of daggers and seas of flames
- 2 fig. extreme danger (idiom)
厝火积薪
- 1 lit. to put a fire under a pile of firewood (idiom)
- 2 fig. hidden danger
- 3 imminent danger
城门失火,殃及池鱼
- 1 a fire in the city gates is also a calamity for the fish in the moat (idiom); the bystander will also suffer
- 2 fig. you can't escape responsibility for your actions
- 3 ask not for whom the bell tolls - it tolls for thee
如火如荼
- 1 like wildfire (idiom)
- 2 unstoppable