残花败柳 — Chinese idiom
残花败柳
cán huā bài liǔ
Traditional: 殘花敗柳
Meaning
- broken flower, withered willow ; fig. fallen woman
Character by character
- 残cánto injure, to ruin, to spoil; cruel, oppressive, s
- 花huāflower, blossom; to spend (time or money)
- 败bàifailure; to decline, to fail, to suffer defeat
- 柳liǔwillow tree; pleasure; surname
Idioms sharing a character
- 抱残守缺 bào cán shǒu quē
- 收残缀轶 shōu cán zhuì yì
- 断壁残垣 duàn bì cán yuán
- 残兵败将 cán bīng bài jiàng
- 残年短景 cán nián duǎn jǐng
- 残民害物 cán mín hài wù
- 残酷无情 cán kù wú qíng
- 自相残杀 zì xiāng cán shā
- 苟延残喘 gǒu yán cán chuǎn
- 骨肉相残 gǔ ròu xiāng cán
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