| 引蛇出洞 |
yǐn shé chū dòng |
lit. to pull a snake from its hole / to expose a malefactor (idiom) |
| 引 |
yǐn |
to draw (e.g. a bow) / to pull / to stretch sth / to extend / to lengthen / to involve or implicate in / to attract / to lead / to guide / to leave / to provide evidence or justification for / old unit of distance equal to 10 丈, one-thirtieth of a km or 33.33 meters |
| 蛇 |
shé |
variant of 蛇 |
| 蛇 |
shé |
snake / serpent / CL:条 |
| 蛇 |
yí |
used in 委蛇 |
| 出 |
chū |
to go out; to come out / to arise; to occur / to produce; to yield / to go beyond; to exceed / (used after a verb to indicate an outward direction or a positive result) / classifier for dramas, plays, operas etc |
| 出 |
chū |
variant of 出 (classifier for plays or chapters of classical novels) |
| 洞 |
dòng |
cave / hole / zero (unambiguous spoken form when spelling out numbers) / CL:个 |
| 洞 |
tóng |
used in 洪洞, a county in Shanxi |