兰艾同焚 — Chinese idiom
兰艾同焚
lán ài tóng fén
Traditional: 蘭艾同焚
Meaning
- lit. to burn both fragrant orchids and stinking weeds ; fig. to destroy indiscriminately the noble and common
- the rain falls on the just and unjust alike
Character by character
- 兰lánorchid; elegant, graceful
- 艾àimugwort, Artemisia vulgaris; used in transliterati
- 同tóngsame, similar; together with, alike
- 焚fénto burn
Idioms sharing a character
- 芝兰之室 zhī lán zhī shì
- 芝兰玉树 zhī lán yù shù
- 采兰赠芍 cǎi lán zèng sháo
- 金兰之交 jīn lán zhī jiāo
- 方兴未艾 fāng xīng wèi ài
- 期期艾艾 qī qī ài ài
- 自艾自怜 zì yì zì lián
- 一视同仁 yī shì tóng rén
- 不同凡响 bù tóng fán xiǎng
- 不敢苟同 bù gǎn gǒu tóng
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