to burn the Confucian classics and bury alive the Confucian scholars (acts supposedly committed by the first emperor 秦始皇[Qin2 Shi3 huang2])
trad. 焚書坑儒
Also written 焚書坑儒【fén shū kēng rú】
Characters in this word
4焚
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to burn
- Pinyin
- fén
- Strokes
- 12
书
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abbr. for 書經|书经[Shu1 jing1]
- Pinyin
- Shū
- Traditional
- 書
- Strokes
- 4
- Frequency
- 1073 of 2500
坑
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pit; hollow; depression, (mining) pit; shaft; tunnel, (literary) to bury alive, (coll.) to cheat; to scam; to screw over
- Pinyin
- kēng
- Strokes
- 7
- Frequency
- 8265 of 2500
儒
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scholar, Confucian
- Pinyin
- rú
- Strokes
- 16