lit. doors not locked at night (idiom); fig. stable society
trad. 夜不閉戶
Also written 夜不閉戶【yè bù bì hù】
Characters in this word
4夜
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variant of 夜[ye4]
- Pinyin
- yè
- Traditional
- 亱
- Strokes
- 8
- Frequency
- 4459 of 2500
不
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no; not so, (bound form) not; un-
- Pinyin
- bù
- Strokes
- 4
- Frequency
- 9 of 2500
闭
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to close, to stop up, to shut, to obstruct
- Pinyin
- bì
- Traditional
- 閉
- Strokes
- 6
- Frequency
- 17986 of 2500
户
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a household, door, family
- Pinyin
- hù
- Traditional
- 戶
- Strokes
- 4
- Frequency
- 30857 of 2500