狼烟四起 — Chinese idiom
狼烟四起
láng yān sì qǐ
Traditional: 狼煙四起
Meaning
- fire beacons on all sides ; enveloped in the flames of war
Character by character
- 狼lángwolf
- 烟yānsmoke, soot; opium; tobacco, cigarettes
- 四sìfour
- 起qǐto begin, to initiate; to rise, to stand up
Idioms sharing a character
- 引狼入室 yǐn láng rù shì
- 杯盘狼藉 bēi pán láng jí
- 狼吞虎咽 láng tūn hǔ yàn
- 狼奔豕突 láng bēn shǐ tū
- 狼子野心 láng zǐ yě xīn
- 狼心狗肺 láng xīn gǒu fèi
- 狼狈为奸 láng bèi wéi jiān
- 狼虫虎豹 láng chóng hǔ bào
- 豺狼当道 chái láng dāng dào
- 豺狼虎豹 chái láng hǔ bào
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