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祸起萧墙
huò​qǐ​xiāo​qiáng

internal strife

Definitions Defs Origin Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents
  1. 祸 禍 huò noun
    disaster
    misfortune; calamity; disaster; opposite of 福 fú
  2. 起 qǐ verbparticle
    to happen
    to occur; to appear; to arise; to break out (of skin conditions, rashes, or blisters)
  3. 萧墙 蕭牆 xiāo​qiáng
    internal trouble
    (literary) used metaphorically to refer to internal strife or domestic conflict, as in the idiom 祸起萧墙 huò​qǐ​xiāo​qiáng