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断壁颓垣

duàn bì tuí yuán

4-character word Traditional 斷壁頹垣

What 断壁颓垣 means

1. lit. walls reduced to rubble (idiom)
2. fig. scene of devastation
3. ruins

The characters in 断壁颓垣

• 断duànto break; to snap; to cut off
• 壁bìwall; rampart
• 颓tuíto crumble; to collapse; to decline
• 垣yuánwall

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