See 抱薪救火 on Wiktionary
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"form": "抱薪救焚"
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"form": "負薪救火"
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"lang": "Chinese",
"lang_code": "zh",
"literal_meaning": "to carry firewood to put out a fire",
"pos": "phrase",
"senses": [
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"name": "Cantonese chengyu",
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"english": "Use words to stop other people's gossip, and use actions to quell troubles, just like raising dust to quell it, or carrying firewood to put out a fire.",
"raw_tags": [
"Classical Chinese",
"Traditional Chinese"
],
"ref": " Huainanzi, 2ⁿᵈ century BCE",
"roman": "Zhǐ yán yǐ yán, zhǐ shì yǐ shì, pì yóu yáng kè ér mǐ chén, bào xīn ér jiùhuǒ.",
"tags": [
"Pinyin"
],
"text": "止言以言，止事以事，譬猶揚堁而弭塵，抱薪而救火。",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"english": "Use words to stop other people's gossip, and use actions to quell troubles, just like raising dust to quell it, or carrying firewood to put out a fire.",
"raw_tags": [
"Classical Chinese",
"Simplified Chinese"
],
"ref": " Huainanzi, 2ⁿᵈ century BCE",
"roman": "Zhǐ yán yǐ yán, zhǐ shì yǐ shì, pì yóu yáng kè ér mǐ chén, bào xīn ér jiùhuǒ.",
"tags": [
"Pinyin"
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"text": "止言以言，止事以事，譬犹扬堁而弭尘，抱薪而救火。",
"type": "quote"
},
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"english": "Moreover, ceding land to Qin is like carrying firewood to put out a fire. The fire will not go out until the firewood is burned out.",
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"Classical Chinese",
"Traditional Chinese"
],
"ref": " The Records of the Grand Historian, by Sima Qian, c. 91 BCE",
"roman": "Qiě fú yǐ dì shì Qín pì yóu bàoxīnjiùhuǒ, xīn bùjìn, huǒ bùmiè.",
"tags": [
"Pinyin"
],
"text": "且夫以地事秦譬猶抱薪救火，薪不盡，火不滅。",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"english": "Moreover, ceding land to Qin is like carrying firewood to put out a fire. The fire will not go out until the firewood is burned out.",
"raw_tags": [
"Classical Chinese",
"Simplified Chinese"
],
"ref": " The Records of the Grand Historian, by Sima Qian, c. 91 BCE",
"roman": "Qiě fú yǐ dì shì Qín pì yóu bàoxīnjiùhuǒ, xīn bùjìn, huǒ bùmiè.",
"tags": [
"Pinyin"
],
"text": "且夫以地事秦譬犹抱薪救火，薪不尽，火不灭。",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"to adopt a wrong method to save a situation and end up by making it worse"
],
"id": "en-抱薪救火-zh-phrase-AEc3Duwb",
"links": [
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"adopt",
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],
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"wrong",
"wrong"
],
[
"method",
"method"
],
[
"save",
"save"
],
[
"situation",
"situation"
],
[
"end up",
"end up"
],
[
"making",
"make"
],
[
"worse",
"worse"
]
],
"synonyms": [
{
"roman": "huǒshàngjiāoyóu",
"word": "火上澆油／火上浇油"
},
{
"roman": "huǒshàngjiāoyóu",
"word": "火上澆油"
},
{
"roman": "huǒshàngjiāoyóu",
"word": "火上浇油"
}
],
"tags": [
"idiomatic"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"tags": [
"Mandarin",
"Pinyin"
],
"zh-pron": "bàoxīn-jiùhuǒ"
},
{
"tags": [
"Mandarin",
"bopomofo"
],
"zh-pron": "ㄅㄠˋ ㄒㄧㄣ ㄐㄧㄡˋ ㄏㄨㄛˇ"
},
{
"tags": [
"Cantonese",
"Jyutping"
],
"zh-pron": "pou⁵ san¹ gau³ fo²"
},
{
"tags": [
"Hanyu-Pinyin",
"Mandarin"
],
"zh-pron": "bàoxīn-jiùhuǒ"
},
{
"tags": [
"Mandarin",
"Tongyong-Pinyin"
],
"zh-pron": "bàosinjiòuhuǒ"
},
{
"tags": [
"Mandarin",
"Wade-Giles"
],
"zh-pron": "pao⁴-hsin¹-chiu⁴-huo³"
},
{
"tags": [
"Mandarin",
"Yale"
],
"zh-pron": "bàu-syīn-jyòu-hwǒ"
},
{
"tags": [
"Gwoyeu-Romatsyh",
"Mandarin"
],
"zh-pron": "bawshinjiowhuoo"
},
{
"tags": [
"Mandarin",
"Palladius"
],
"zh-pron": "баосиньцзюхо"
},
{
"tags": [
"Mandarin",
"Palladius"
],
"zh-pron": "baosinʹczjuxo"
},
{
"ipa": "/pɑʊ̯⁵¹ ɕin⁵⁵ t͡ɕi̯oʊ̯⁵¹ xu̯ɔ²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/",
"tags": [
"Mandarin",
"Sinological-IPA"
]
},
{
"tags": [
"Cantonese",
"Yale"
],
"zh-pron": "póuh sān gau fó"
},
{
"tags": [
"Cantonese",
"Pinyin"
],
"zh-pron": "pou⁵ san¹ gau³ fo²"
},
{
"tags": [
"Cantonese",
"Guangdong-Romanization"
],
"zh-pron": "pou⁵ sen¹ geo³ fo²"
},
{
"ipa": "/pʰou̯¹³ sɐn⁵⁵ kɐu̯³³ fɔː³⁵/",
"tags": [
"Cantonese",
"Sinological-IPA"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/pɑʊ̯⁵¹ ɕin⁵⁵ t͡ɕi̯oʊ̯⁵¹ xu̯ɔ²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/"
},
{
"ipa": "/pʰou̯¹³ sɐn⁵⁵ kɐu̯³³ fɔː³⁵/"
}
],
"word": "抱薪救火"
}
{
"forms": [
{
"form": "抱薪救焚"
},
{
"form": "負薪救火"
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"lang": "Chinese",
"lang_code": "zh",
"literal_meaning": "to carry firewood to put out a fire",
"pos": "phrase",
"senses": [
{
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"Cantonese chengyu",
"Cantonese idioms",
"Cantonese lemmas",
"Chinese chengyu",
"Chinese entries with incorrect language header",
"Chinese idioms",
"Chinese lemmas",
"Chinese terms spelled with 抱",
"Chinese terms spelled with 救",
"Chinese terms spelled with 火",
"Chinese terms spelled with 薪",
"Chinese terms with IPA pronunciation",
"Literary Chinese terms with quotations",
"Mandarin chengyu",
"Mandarin idioms",
"Mandarin lemmas",
"Pages with 1 entry",
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"examples": [
{
"english": "Use words to stop other people's gossip, and use actions to quell troubles, just like raising dust to quell it, or carrying firewood to put out a fire.",
"raw_tags": [
"Classical Chinese",
"Traditional Chinese"
],
"ref": " Huainanzi, 2ⁿᵈ century BCE",
"roman": "Zhǐ yán yǐ yán, zhǐ shì yǐ shì, pì yóu yáng kè ér mǐ chén, bào xīn ér jiùhuǒ.",
"tags": [
"Pinyin"
],
"text": "止言以言，止事以事，譬猶揚堁而弭塵，抱薪而救火。",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"english": "Use words to stop other people's gossip, and use actions to quell troubles, just like raising dust to quell it, or carrying firewood to put out a fire.",
"raw_tags": [
"Classical Chinese",
"Simplified Chinese"
],
"ref": " Huainanzi, 2ⁿᵈ century BCE",
"roman": "Zhǐ yán yǐ yán, zhǐ shì yǐ shì, pì yóu yáng kè ér mǐ chén, bào xīn ér jiùhuǒ.",
"tags": [
"Pinyin"
],
"text": "止言以言，止事以事，譬犹扬堁而弭尘，抱薪而救火。",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"english": "Moreover, ceding land to Qin is like carrying firewood to put out a fire. The fire will not go out until the firewood is burned out.",
"raw_tags": [
"Classical Chinese",
"Traditional Chinese"
],
"ref": " The Records of the Grand Historian, by Sima Qian, c. 91 BCE",
"roman": "Qiě fú yǐ dì shì Qín pì yóu bàoxīnjiùhuǒ, xīn bùjìn, huǒ bùmiè.",
"tags": [
"Pinyin"
],
"text": "且夫以地事秦譬猶抱薪救火，薪不盡，火不滅。",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"english": "Moreover, ceding land to Qin is like carrying firewood to put out a fire. The fire will not go out until the firewood is burned out.",
"raw_tags": [
"Classical Chinese",
"Simplified Chinese"
],
"ref": " The Records of the Grand Historian, by Sima Qian, c. 91 BCE",
"roman": "Qiě fú yǐ dì shì Qín pì yóu bàoxīnjiùhuǒ, xīn bùjìn, huǒ bùmiè.",
"tags": [
"Pinyin"
],
"text": "且夫以地事秦譬犹抱薪救火，薪不尽，火不灭。",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"to adopt a wrong method to save a situation and end up by making it worse"
],
"links": [
[
"adopt",
"adopt"
],
[
"wrong",
"wrong"
],
[
"method",
"method"
],
[
"save",
"save"
],
[
"situation",
"situation"
],
[
"end up",
"end up"
],
[
"making",
"make"
],
[
"worse",
"worse"
]
],
"tags": [
"idiomatic"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"tags": [
"Mandarin",
"Pinyin"
],
"zh-pron": "bàoxīn-jiùhuǒ"
},
{
"tags": [
"Mandarin",
"bopomofo"
],
"zh-pron": "ㄅㄠˋ ㄒㄧㄣ ㄐㄧㄡˋ ㄏㄨㄛˇ"
},
{
"tags": [
"Cantonese",
"Jyutping"
],
"zh-pron": "pou⁵ san¹ gau³ fo²"
},
{
"tags": [
"Hanyu-Pinyin",
"Mandarin"
],
"zh-pron": "bàoxīn-jiùhuǒ"
},
{
"tags": [
"Mandarin",
"Tongyong-Pinyin"
],
"zh-pron": "bàosinjiòuhuǒ"
},
{
"tags": [
"Mandarin",
"Wade-Giles"
],
"zh-pron": "pao⁴-hsin¹-chiu⁴-huo³"
},
{
"tags": [
"Mandarin",
"Yale"
],
"zh-pron": "bàu-syīn-jyòu-hwǒ"
},
{
"tags": [
"Gwoyeu-Romatsyh",
"Mandarin"
],
"zh-pron": "bawshinjiowhuoo"
},
{
"tags": [
"Mandarin",
"Palladius"
],
"zh-pron": "баосиньцзюхо"
},
{
"tags": [
"Mandarin",
"Palladius"
],
"zh-pron": "baosinʹczjuxo"
},
{
"ipa": "/pɑʊ̯⁵¹ ɕin⁵⁵ t͡ɕi̯oʊ̯⁵¹ xu̯ɔ²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/",
"tags": [
"Mandarin",
"Sinological-IPA"
]
},
{
"tags": [
"Cantonese",
"Yale"
],
"zh-pron": "póuh sān gau fó"
},
{
"tags": [
"Cantonese",
"Pinyin"
],
"zh-pron": "pou⁵ san¹ gau³ fo²"
},
{
"tags": [
"Cantonese",
"Guangdong-Romanization"
],
"zh-pron": "pou⁵ sen¹ geo³ fo²"
},
{
"ipa": "/pʰou̯¹³ sɐn⁵⁵ kɐu̯³³ fɔː³⁵/",
"tags": [
"Cantonese",
"Sinological-IPA"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/pɑʊ̯⁵¹ ɕin⁵⁵ t͡ɕi̯oʊ̯⁵¹ xu̯ɔ²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/"
},
{
"ipa": "/pʰou̯¹³ sɐn⁵⁵ kɐu̯³³ fɔː³⁵/"
}
],
"synonyms": [
{
"roman": "huǒshàngjiāoyóu",
"word": "火上澆油／火上浇油"
},
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"roman": "huǒshàngjiāoyóu",
"word": "火上澆油"
},
{
"roman": "huǒshàngjiāoyóu",
"word": "火上浇油"
}
],
"word": "抱薪救火"
}
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