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刀光剑影

dāo guāng jiàn yǐng

4-character word Traditional 刀光劍影

What 刀光剑影 means

1. lit. flash of knives and swords (idiom)
2. fig. intense conflict

The characters in 刀光剑影

• 刀dāoknife; blade; single-edged sword; cutlass; (slang; loanword) dollar…
• 光guānglight; ray; bright; shiny; only; merely
• 剑jiàndouble-edged sword; classifier for blows of a sword
• 影yǐngpicture; image; film

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