池魚之殃
chí​yú​zhī​yāng

innocent people suffering from others' misfortunes

  • created reference approved 池鱼之殃/池魚之殃 → 城门失火，殃及池鱼/城門失火，殃及池魚 (see) — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"

    池鱼之殃 / 池魚之殃 chí​yú​zhī​yāng

    城门失火，殃及池鱼 / 城門失火，殃及池魚 chéng​mén​shī​huǒ​yāng​jí​chí​yú

    see

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

    created reference

  • created sense approved 池鱼之殃/池魚之殃 · chí​yú​zhī​yāng · innocent people suffering from others' misfortunes — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"

    池鱼之殃 / 池魚之殃

    chí​yú​zhī​yāng

    innocent people suffering from others' misfortunes

    disaster brought upon innocent people through being involved in someone else's misfortune; refers to a story where the water in a pond was drained to put out a fire, causing the fish to die

    池 (literal) → 池 · chí · pond 鱼 (literal) → 鱼/魚 · yú · fish 之 (literal) → 之 · zhī · [possessive] 殃 (literal) → 殃 · yāng · calamity

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

    created sense