炉火纯青 — Chinese idiom
炉火纯青
lú huǒ chún qīng
Traditional: 爐火純青
Meaning
- (lit.) the stove fire has turned bright green (allusion to Daoist alchemy)
- (fig.) (of an art, a technique etc) brought to the point of perfection
Character by character
- 炉lúfireplace, furnace, oven, stove
- 火huǒfire, flame; to burn; anger, rage
- 纯chúnpure, clean; simple, genuine
- 青qīngnature's color; blue, green, black; young
Idioms sharing a character
- 另起炉灶 lìng qǐ lú zào
- 重起炉灶 chóng qǐ lú zào
- 干柴烈火 gān chái liè huǒ
- 刀山火海 dāo shān huǒ hǎi
- 厝火积薪 cuò huǒ jī xīn
- 大动肝火 dà dòng gān huǒ
- 如火如荼 rú huǒ rú tú
- 后院起火 hòu yuàn qǐ huǒ
- 急如星火 jí rú xīng huǒ
- 惹火烧身 rě huǒ shāo shēn
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