断壁残垣

Traditional form:

斷壁殘垣

Pinyin (reading):

duànbìcányuán

Definitions:

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

Characters:

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

Traditional characters:

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