兵荒马乱
Traditional form:
兵荒馬亂
Pinyin (reading):
bīnghuāngmǎluàn
Definitions:
- (idiom) war-torn; ravaged by war; in a state of utter chaos
Characters:
- 兵 - soldier; troops, an army; warlike
- 荒 - wasteland, desert; uncultivated
- 马 - horse; surname
- 乱 - anarchy, chaos; revolt
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