残垣断壁 (殘垣斷壁)
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Pinyin
Definition
残垣断壁 (殘垣斷壁)
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- crumbling fences and dilapidated walls (idiom)
Character Decomposition
Idioms (11)
向壁虚构
- 1 facing a wall, an imaginary construction (idiom); baseless fabrication
向壁虚造
- 1 facing a wall, an imaginary construction (idiom); baseless fabrication
坚壁清野
- 1 to fortify defenses and raze the fields (idiom); to leave nothing for the invader
- 2 scorched earth policy
壁垒一新
- 1 to have one's defenses in good order (idiom)
家徒四壁
- 1 lit. with only four bare walls for a home (idiom)
- 2 fig. very poor
- 3 wretched