四壁蕭然
sì​bì​xiāo​rán

four bare walls

  • created sense approved 四壁萧然/四壁蕭然 · sì​bì​xiāo​rán · four bare walls — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"

    四壁萧然 / 四壁蕭然

    sì​bì​xiāo​rán

    four bare walls

    four bare walls; a metaphor for being extremely poor and having nothing in one's home

    四壁 (literal) → 四壁 · sì​bì · the walls of a room 萧然 (literal) → 萧然/蕭然 · xiāo​rán · desolate

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

    created sense