秋风扫落叶
Traditional form:
秋風掃落葉
Pinyin (reading):
qiūfēngsǎoluòyè
Definitions:
- lit. as the autumn gale sweeps away the fallen leaves (idiom); to drive out the old and make a clean sweep
Characters:
- 秋 - autumn, fall; year
- 风 - wind; air; customs, manners; news
- 扫 - to clean, to sweep, to wipe away; to weed out; to wipe out
- 落 - to fall, to drop; surplus, net income
- 叶 - leaf, page; surname
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