不食人间烟火
bù​shí​rén​jiān​yān​huǒ

otherworldly

  • created reference approved 不食人间烟火/不食人間煙火 → 不吃烟火食/不吃煙火食 (same_as) — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"

    不食人间烟火 / 不食人間煙火 bù​shí​rén​jiān​yān​huǒ

    不吃烟火食 / 不吃煙火食 bù​chī​yān​huǒ​shí

    same_as

    Changed: source (simp), source (trad), source pinyin, target (simp), target (trad), target pinyin, type

    created reference

  • created sense approved 不食人间烟火/不食人間煙火 · bù​shí​rén​jiān​yān​huǒ · otherworldly — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"

    不食人间烟火 / 不食人間煙火

    bù​shí​rén​jiān​yān​huǒ

    otherworldly

    (idiom) detached from the mundane concerns of ordinary life; having an ethereal or spiritual quality as if one does not eat cooked food like ordinary mortals

    不 (literal) → 不 · bù · not 食 (literal) → 食 · shí · to eat 人间 (literal) → 人间/人間 · rén​jiān · the human world 烟火 (literal) → 烟火/煙火 · yān​huǒ · cooked food

    Changed: simplified, traditional, gloss, definition, pinyin, variant pinyin, variants, separable parts, decomposition

    created sense