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引蛇出洞

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4-character word

What 引蛇出洞 means

1. lit. to pull a snake from its hole
2. to expose a malefactor (idiom)

The characters in 引蛇出洞

• 引yǐnto draw (e.g. a bow); to pull; to stretch sth
• 蛇shésnake; serpent
• 出chūto go out; to come out; to arise; to occur; to produce; to yield
• 洞dòngcave; hole; zero (unambiguous spoken form when spelling out numbers)