烟熏火燎 — Chinese idiom
烟熏火燎
yān xūn huǒ liǎo
Traditional: 煙燻火燎
Meaning
- smoke and baking fire ; surrounded by flames and smoke
Character by character
- 烟yānsmoke, soot; opium; tobacco, cigarettes
- 熏xūnto smoke, to cure meat; vapor, smoke, fog
- 火huǒfire, flame; to burn; anger, rage
- 燎liǎoto burn, to light; street lamp; signal fire
Idioms sharing a character
- 七窍生烟 qī qiào shēng yān
- 人烟稀少 rén yān xī shǎo
- 人烟稠密 rén yān chóu mì
- 如堕烟雾 rú duò yān wù
- 柳烟花雾 liǔ yān huā wù
- 浩如烟海 hào rú yān hǎi
- 渺无人烟 miǎo wú rén yān
- 灰飞烟灭 huī fēi yān miè
- 乌烟瘴气 wū yān zhàng qì
- 烽烟四起 fēng yān sì qǐ
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