断垣残壁

Traditional form:

斷垣殘壁

Pinyin (reading):

duànyuáncánbì

Definitions:

• lit. walls reduced to rubble (idiom)
• fig. scene of devastation
• ruins

Characters:

• 断 - to sever, to cut off, to interrupt
• 垣 - low wall
• 残 - to injure, to ruin, to spoil; cruel, oppressive, savage; disabled, incomplete
• 壁 - partition, wall; rampart

Traditional characters:

• 斷 - to sever, to cut off, to interrupt
• 垣 - low wall
• 殘 - to injure, to ruin, to spoil; cruel, oppressive, savage; disabled, incomplete
• 壁 - partition, wall; rampart