如履薄冰
rú​lǚ​bó​bīng

extremely cautious

  • created sense approved 如履薄冰 · rú​lǚ​bó​bīng · extremely cautious — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"

    如履薄冰

    rú​lǚ​bó​bīng

    extremely cautious

    tread carefully as if walking on thin ice; extremely cautious and wary in one's actions

    rú​lǚ​báo​bīng

    如 (literal) → 如 · rú · to be like 履 (literal) → 履 · lǚ · to tread on 薄 (literal) → 薄 · báo · thin 冰 (literal) → 冰 · bīng · ice

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

    created sense