Dictionary · Google Translate · Help

焚书坑儒

fén shū kēng to burn the Confucian classics and bury alive the Confucian scholars (acts supposedly committed by the first emperor 秦始皇)
fén to burn
  Shū abbr. for 书经
  shū book / letter / document / CL:,, / to write
   kēng pit; hollow; depression / (mining) pit; shaft; tunnel / (literary) to bury alive / (coll.) to cheat; to scam; to screw over
   kēng variant of
    scholar / Confucian
<< go back
Dictionary · Google Translate · Help
By MDBG 2025