禍起蕭牆
huò​qǐ​xiāo​qiáng

internal strife

  • created sense approved 祸起萧墙/禍起蕭牆 · huò​qǐ​xiāo​qiáng · internal strife — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"

    祸起萧墙 / 禍起蕭牆

    huò​qǐ​xiāo​qiáng

    internal strife

    Trouble or disaster originating from within one's own group or family, referring to internal conflict rather than outside threats, from a passage in the Analects referring to a screen wall inside a palace [[萧墙|蕭牆|xiao1 qiang2]]

    祸 (literal) → 祸/禍 · huò · disaster 起 (literal) → 起 · qǐ · to happen 萧墙 (literal) → 萧墙/蕭牆 · xiāo​qiáng · internal trouble

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

    created sense