兰艾同焚
Traditional form:
蘭艾同焚
Pinyin (reading):
lán'àitóngfén
Definitions:
- lit. to burn both fragrant orchids and stinking weeds (idiom); fig. to destroy indiscriminately the noble and common
- the rain falls on the just and unjust alike
Characters:
- 兰 - orchid; elegant, graceful
- 艾 - mugwort, Artemisia vulgaris; used in transliterations
- 同 - same, similar; together with, alike
- 焚 - to burn
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