空室清野
kōng shì qīng yě
Pinyin

Definition

空室清野
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kōng shì qīng yě
  1. empty room, clean field (idiom); clean out everything to leave nothing for the enemy
  2. scorched earth policy

Character Decomposition

Related Words (20)

野
yě
  1. 1 old variant of 野[yě]
天空
tiān kōng
  1. 1 sky
教室
jiào shì
  1. 1 classroom
  2. 2 classifier: 间 jiān
星空
xīng kōng
  1. 1 starry sky
  2. 2 the heavens
时空
shí kōng
  1. 1 time and place
  2. 2 world of a particular locale and era
  3. 3 (physics) space-time

Idioms (20)

一清二楚
yī qīng èr chǔ
  1. 1 to be very clear about sth (idiom)
一清二白
yī qīng èr bái
  1. 1 perfectly clean
  2. 2 blameless
  3. 3 unimpeachable (idiom)
一清如水
yī qīng rú shuǐ
  1. 1 lit. as clear as water (idiom)
  2. 2 fig. (of officials etc) honest and incorruptible
一纸空文
yī zhǐ kōng wén
  1. 1 a worthless piece of paper (idiom)
不安其室
bù ān qí shì
  1. 1 to be discontented with one's home
  2. 2 to have adulterous relations after marriage (of women) (idiom)