妻离子散 — Chinese idiom
妻离子散
qī lí zǐ sàn
Traditional: 妻離子散
Meaning
- a family wrenched apart
Character by character
- 妻qīwife
- 离lírare beast; strange; elegant
- 子zǐson, child; seed, egg; fruit; small thing
- 散sànto scatter, to disperse, to break up
Idioms sharing a character
- 三妻四妾 sān qī sì qiè
- 宠妾灭妻 chǒng qiè miè qī
- 封妻荫子 fēng qī yìn zǐ
- 不离不弃 bù lí bù qì
- 分崩离析 fēn bēng lí xī
- 寸步不离 cùn bù bù lí
- 挑拨离间 tiǎo bō lí jiàn
- 支离破碎 zhī lí pò suì
- 流离失所 liú lí shī suǒ
- 流离颠沛 liú lí diān pèi
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