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趁火打劫

chèn huǒ jié lit. to loot a burning house (idiom) / fig. to take advantage of sb's misfortune
chèn to avail oneself of / to take advantage of
chèn old variant of
  Huǒ surname Huo
  huǒ fire / urgent / ammunition / fiery or flaming / internal heat (Chinese medicine) / hot (popular) / classifier for military units (old) / Kangxi radical 86
   (loanword) dozen / Taiwan pr. [da3]
   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")
   jié to loot / to rob / to plunder / to ransack
    jié variant of
    jié variant of
    jié variant of
    jié to rob / to plunder / to seize by force / to coerce / calamity / abbr. for kalpa 劫波
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