遇火
yù huǒ
Pinyin
Definition
遇火
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- to catch fire
- to ignite
Character Decomposition
Idioms (20)
不到火候不揭锅
- 1 don't act until the time is ripe (idiom)
他乡遇故知
- 1 meeting an old friend in a foreign place (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
可遇不可求
- 1 can be discovered but not sought (idiom)
- 2 one can only come across such things serendipitously