赤手空拳 — Chinese idiom
赤手空拳
chì shǒu kōng quán
Meaning
- with one's bare hands (unarmed – also figuratively: without assistance)
Character by character
- 赤chìred, scarlet; blushing; bare, naked
- 手shǒuhand
- 空kōnghollow, empty, deserted, bare
- 拳quánfist; various forms of boxing
Idioms sharing a character
- 白眉赤眼 bái méi chì yǎn
- 赤膊上阵 chì bó shàng zhèn
- 赤胆忠心 chì dǎn zhōng xīn
- 赤贫如洗 chì pín rú xǐ
- 金无足赤 jīn wú zú chì
- 七手八脚 qī shǒu bā jiǎo
- 上下其手 shàng xià qí shǒu
- 假手于人 jiǎ shǒu yú rén
- 两手空空 liǎng shǒu kōng kōng
- 大手大脚 dà shǒu dà jiǎo
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