遍体鳞伤 — Chinese idiom
遍体鳞伤
biàn tǐ lín shāng
Traditional: 遍體鱗傷
Meaning
- covered all over with cuts and bruises; beaten black and blue
Character by character
- 遍biàneverywhere, all over, throughout
- 体tǐbody; group, class; form, style, system
- 鳞línfish scales
- 伤shāngto injure, to harm; wound, injury; to fall ill
Idioms sharing a character
- 哀鸿遍野 āi hóng biàn yě
- 尸横遍野 shī héng biàn yě
- 漫天遍地 màn tiān biàn dì
- 漫山遍野 màn shān biàn yě
- 烽烟遍地 fēng yān biàn dì
- 遍地开花 biàn dì kāi huā
- 饿莩遍野 è piǎo biàn yě
- 不成体统 bù chéng tǐ tǒng
- 不识大体 bù shí dà tǐ
- 五体投地 wǔ tǐ tóu dì
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