断垣残壁 / 斷垣殘壁

duàn​yuán​cán​bì

ruins

broken and collapsed walls; describes a scene of devastation or buildings reduced to rubble after a disaster

断 (literal) → 断/斷 · duàn · to break 垣 (literal) → 垣 · yuán · wall 残 (literal) → 残/殘 · cán · incomplete 壁 (literal) → 壁 · bì · wall

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

created sense May 20, 2026, 07:57 PM