lit. when a wall is about to collapse, everybody gives it a shove (idiom); fig. everybody hits a man who is down
trad. 牆倒眾人推
Also written 牆倒眾人推【qiáng dǎo zhòng rén tuī】
Characters in this word
5墙
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variant of 牆|墙[qiang2]
- Pinyin
- qiáng
- Traditional
- 墻
- Strokes
- 14
- Frequency
- 3731 of 2500
倒
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to fall; to collapse; to lie horizontally, to fail; to go bankrupt, to overthrow, to change (trains or buses), to move around, to resell at a profit
- Pinyin
- dǎo
- Strokes
- 10
- Frequency
- 578 of 2500
众
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abbr. for 眾議院|众议院[Zhong4 yi4 yuan4], House of Representatives
- Pinyin
- Zhòng
- Traditional
- 眾
- Strokes
- 6
- Frequency
- 20373 of 2500
人
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person; people, CL:個|个[ge4],位[wei4],名[ming2]
- Pinyin
- rén
- Strokes
- 2
- Frequency
- 30 of 2500
推
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to push, to cut, to refuse, to reject, to decline, to shirk (responsibility), to put off, to delay, to push forward, to nominate, to elect, massage
- Pinyin
- tuī
- Strokes
- 11
- Frequency
- 2207 of 2500