残垣败壁
Traditional form:
殘垣敗壁
Pinyin (reading):
cányuánbàibì
Definitions:
- lit. walls reduced to rubble (idiom)
- fig. scene of devastation
- ruins
Characters:
- 残 - to injure, to ruin, to spoil; cruel, oppressive, savage; disabled, incomplete
- 垣 - low wall
- 败 - failure; to decline, to fail, to suffer defeat
- 壁 - partition, wall; rampart
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