magnificent building reduced to a mound of rubble (idiom); fig. all one's plans in ruins
trad. 華屋丘墟
Also written 華屋丘墟【huá wū qiū xū】
Characters in this word
4华
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abbr. for China
- Pinyin
- Huá
- Traditional
- 華
- Strokes
- 6
- Frequency
- 12166 of 2500
屋
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(bound form) house, (bound form) room
- Pinyin
- wū
- Strokes
- 9
- Frequency
- 4089 of 2500
丘
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surname Qiu
- Pinyin
- Qiū
- Strokes
- 5
- Frequency
- 20351 of 2500
墟
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ruins, (literary) village, variant of 圩[xu1], country fair
- Pinyin
- xū
- Strokes
- 14