兵临城下
Traditional form:
兵臨城下
Pinyin (reading):
bīnglínchéngxià
Definitions:
- soldiers at the city walls (idiom); fig. at a critical juncture
Characters:
- 兵 - soldier; troops, an army; warlike
- 临 - to draw near, to approach; to descend
- 城 - castle, city, town; municipality
- 下 - below, underneath; inferior; to bring down; next
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