荼毒生灵 — Chinese idiom
荼毒生灵
tú dú shēng líng
Traditional: 荼毒生靈
Meaning
- to torment the people
Character by character
- 荼túa bitter vegetable
- 毒dúpoison, venom; drug, narcotic
- 生shēnglife, lifetime; birth; growth
- 灵língspirit, soul; spiritual world
Idioms sharing a character
- 如火如荼 rú huǒ rú tú
- 秋荼密网 qiū tú mì wǎng
- 食荼卧棘 shí tú wò jí
- 一生一世 yī shēng yī shì
- 一线生机 yī xiàn shēng jī
- 七窍生烟 qī qiào shēng yān
- 三生有幸 sān shēng yǒu xìng
- 九死一生 jiǔ sǐ yī shēng
- 了无生趣 liǎo wú shēng qù
- 人生如梦 rén shēng rú mèng
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