焰火
yàn huǒ
Pinyin
Definition
焰火
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- fireworks
Character Decomposition
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
口吐毒焰
- 1 lit. a mouth spitting with poisonous flames
- 2 to speak angrily to sb (idiom)
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