断壁残垣 — Chinese idiom
断壁残垣
duàn bì cán yuán
Traditional: 斷壁殘垣
Meaning
- (lit.) broken walls and crumbling remnants
- (fig.) scene of devastation; ruins
Character by character
- 断duànto sever, to cut off, to interrupt
- 壁bìpartition, wall; rampart
- 残cánto injure, to ruin, to spoil; cruel, oppressive, s
- 垣yuánlow wall
Idioms sharing a character
- 一刀两断 yī dāo liǎng duàn
- 伤筋断骨 shāng jīn duàn gǔ
- 割袍断义 gē páo duàn yì
- 多谋善断 duō móu shàn duàn
- 应机立断 yìng jī lì duàn
- 投鞭断流 tóu biān duàn liú
- 接连不断 jiē lián bù duàn
- 断港绝潢 duàn gǎng jué huáng
- 断章取义 duàn zhāng qǔ yì
- 断袖之癖 duàn xiù zhī pǐ
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