荼毒
tú dú
Pinyin
Definition
荼毒
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- torment
- cruelty
- great suffering
Character Decomposition
Idioms (7)
口吐毒焰
- 1 lit. a mouth spitting with poisonous flames
- 2 to speak angrily to sb (idiom)
如火如荼
- 1 like wildfire (idiom)
- 2 unstoppable
无毒不丈夫
- 1 no poison, no great man (idiom); A great man has to be ruthless.
秋荼密网
- 1 flowering autumn grass, fine net (idiom); fig. abundant and exacting punishments prescribed by law
荼毒生灵
- 1 to torment the people (idiom)