lit. fight tigers with one's bare hands and wade across raging rivers (idiom); fig. to display foolhardy courage
trad. 暴虎馮河
Also written 暴虎馮河【bào hǔ píng hé】
Characters in this word
4暴
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surname Bao
- Pinyin
- Bào
- Strokes
- 15
- Frequency
- 29730 of 2500
虎
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tiger, CL:隻|只[zhi1]
- Pinyin
- hǔ
- Strokes
- 8
- Frequency
- 10628 of 2500
冯
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surname Feng
- Pinyin
- Féng
- Traditional
- 馮
- Strokes
- 5
- Frequency
- 9258 of 2500
河
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river (CL:條|条[tiao2],道[dao4]), (bound form) the Yellow River, (bound form) the Milky Way, (bound form) (on restaurant menus) rice noodles 河粉[he2 fen3]
- Pinyin
- hé
- Strokes
- 8
- Frequency
- 4501 of 2500