哀毁骨立 — Chinese idiom
哀毁骨立
āi huǐ gǔ lì
Traditional: 哀毀骨立
Meaning
- to become emaciated from grief, esp. while mourning the death of a parent
Character by character
- 哀āisad, mournful, pitiful; to pity; to grieve
- 毁huǐto damage, to ruin; to defame, to slander
- 骨gǔbone; skeleton; frame, framework
- 立lìto stand; to establish, to set up
Idioms sharing a character
- 乞哀告怜 qǐ āi gào lián
- 哀兵必胜 āi bīng bì shèng
- 哀告宾服 āi gào bīn fú
- 哀而不伤 āi ér bù shāng
- 哀鸿遍野 āi hóng biàn yě
- 喜怒哀乐 xǐ nù āi lè
- 生荣死哀 shēng róng sǐ āi
- 节哀顺变 jié āi shùn biàn
- 毁家纾难 huǐ jiā shū nàn
- 毁于一旦 huǐ yú yī dàn
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