荒烟蔓草 — Chinese idiom
荒烟蔓草
huāng yān màn cǎo
Traditional: 荒煙蔓草
Meaning
- lit. abandoned by men and choked with weeds
- desolate
Character by character
- 荒huāngwasteland, desert; uncultivated
- 烟yānsmoke, soot; opium; tobacco, cigarettes
- 蔓mànvine, tendril, creeper
- 草cǎograss, herbs; straw, thatch
Idioms sharing a character
- 兵荒马乱 bīng huāng mǎ luàn
- 天荒地老 tiān huāng dì lǎo
- 业荒于嬉 yè huāng yú xī
- 荒无人烟 huāng wú rén yān
- 荒谬绝伦 huāng miù jué lún
- 七窍生烟 qī qiào shēng yān
- 人烟稀少 rén yān xī shǎo
- 人烟稠密 rén yān chóu mì
- 如堕烟雾 rú duò yān wù
- 柳烟花雾 liǔ yān huā wù
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