| 蹿房越脊 |
cuān fáng yuè jǐ |
lit. to leap the house and cross the roofridge (idiom); dashing over rooftops (of robbers and pursuing knight-errant 侠客 in fiction) |
| 蹿 |
cuān |
to leap up / (coll.) to gush out; to spurt out |
| 房 |
Fáng |
surname Fang |
| 房 |
fáng |
house / room / CL:间 / branch of an extended family / classifier for family members (or concubines) |
| 越 |
Yuè |
generic word for peoples or states of south China or south Asia at different historical periods / abbr. for Vietnam 越南 |
| 越 |
yuè |
to exceed / to climb over / to surpass / the more... the more |
| 脊 |
jǐ |
(bound form) spine; backbone / (bound form) ridge |