飞蛾投火 [飛蛾投火] - lit. like a moth flying into the fire (idiom); fig. to choose a path to certain destruction - fēi é tóu huǒ | Definition | ChinesePod.com

飞蛾投火 (飛蛾投火)

fēi é tóu huǒ

Pinyin

Definition

飞蛾投火 (飛蛾投火)

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fēi é tóu huǒ

lit. like a moth flying into the fire (idiom); fig. to choose a path to certain destruction

Character Decomposition

Related Words (20)

tóu piào

1 to vote
2 vote

Huǒ

1 surname Huo

huǒ chē

1 train
2 classifier: 列 liè
3 classifier: 节 jié
4 classifier: 班 bān
5 classifier: 趟 tàng

shàng huǒ

1 to get angry
2 to suffer from excessive internal heat (TCM)

dà huǒ

1 conflagration
2 large fire
3 classifier: 场 cháng

Idioms (20)

不到火候不揭锅

bù dào huǒ hòu bù jiē guō

1 don't act until the time is ripe (idiom)

五体投地

wǔ tǐ tóu dì

1 to prostrate oneself in admiration (idiom); to adulate sb

刀山火海

dāo shān huǒ hǎi

1 lit. mountains of daggers and seas of flames
2 fig. extreme danger (idiom)

厝火积薪

cuò huǒ jī xīn

1 lit. to put a fire under a pile of firewood (idiom)
2 fig. hidden danger
3 imminent danger

城门失火，殃及池鱼

chéng mén shī huǒ , yāng jí chí yú

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