bù​shí​yān​huǒ

not eating cooked food

  • created sense approved 不食烟火/不食煙火 · bù​shí​yān​huǒ · not eating cooked food — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"

    不食烟火 / 不食煙火

    bù​shí​yān​huǒ

    not eating cooked food

    to abstain from cooked food, living on fruits or raw food, as part of Taoist practice or to seek immortality

    不 (literal) → 不 · bù · not 食 (literal) → 食 · shí · to eat 烟火 (literal) → 烟火/煙火 · yān​huǒ · cooked food

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    created sense

  • created sense approved 不食烟火/不食煙火 · bù​shí​yān​huǒ · ethereal — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"

    不食烟火 / 不食煙火

    bù​shí​yān​huǒ

    ethereal

    (of a person) having an otherworldly, saintly, or refined quality; detached from the mundane world (often used in the phrase [[不食人间烟火|不食人間煙火|bu4 shi2 ren2 jian1 yan1 huo3]])

    不 (literal) → 不 · bù · not 食 (literal) → 食 · shí · to eat 烟火 (literal) → 烟火/煙火 · yān​huǒ · cooked food

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

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