后院起火 |
hòu yuàn qǐ huǒ |
a conflict arises close to home (idiom) |
后 |
Hòu |
surname Hou |
后 |
hòu |
empress / queen / (archaic) monarch / ruler |
后 |
hòu |
back / behind / rear / afterwards / after / later / post- |
后院 |
hòu yuàn |
rear court / back garden / backyard (also fig.) |
院 |
yuàn |
courtyard / institution / CL:个 |
起 |
qǐ |
to rise / to raise / to get up / to set out / to start / to appear / to launch / to initiate (action) / to draft / to establish / to get (from a depot or counter) / verb suffix, to start / starting from (a time, place, price etc) / classifier for occurrences or unpredictable events: case, instance / classifier for groups: batch, group |
起火 |
qǐ huǒ |
to catch fire / to cook / to get angry |
火 |
Huǒ |
surname Huo |
火 |
huǒ |
fire / urgent / ammunition / fiery or flaming / internal heat (Chinese medicine) / hot (popular) / classifier for military units (old) / Kangxi radical 86 |