Dictionary › 引水入墙

引水入墙

yǐn shuǐ rù qiáng

4-character word Traditional 引水入牆

What 引水入墙 means

1. lit. to lead the water through the wall
2. to ask for trouble (idiom)

The characters in 引水入墙

• 引yǐnto draw (e.g. a bow); to pull; to stretch sth
• 水shuǐwater; (after a name) ... River; to swim (used mostly in 会水
• 入rùto enter; to go into; to join; to become a member of; (bound form) to conform to (as in 入时
• 墙qiángwall; (slang) to block (a website) (usu. in the passive: 被墙

Go deeper

• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read yǐn shuǐ rù qiáng correctly.
• Look up another word in the free dictionary.