趁火打劫 |
chèn huǒ dǎ jié |
lit. to loot a burning house (idiom) / fig. to take advantage of sb's misfortune |
趁 |
chèn |
to avail oneself of / to take advantage of |
趁 |
chèn |
old variant of 趁 |
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 |
打 |
dá |
(loanword) dozen / Taiwan pr. [da3] |
打 |
dǎ |
a semantically light, transitive verb that is combined with various grammatical objects to form compound verbs and verb-object phrases with a diverse range of meanings (e.g. 打伞 "to hold an umbrella", 打电话 "to make a phone call", 打针 "to get an injection", 打手套 "to knit gloves", 打气 "to inflate") / to hit; to strike / to fight / (coll.) from; since (as in 打那以后 "since then") |
打劫 |
dǎ jié |
to loot / to rob / to plunder / to ransack |
劫 |
jié |
variant of 劫 |
劫 |
jié |
variant of 劫 |
劫 |
jié |
variant of 劫 |
劫 |
jié |
to rob / to plunder / to seize by force / to coerce / calamity / abbr. for kalpa 劫波 |