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煮豆燃萁

zhǔ dòu rán qí

4-character word

What 煮豆燃萁 means

1. burning beanstalks to cook the beans (idiom); to cause internecine strife

The characters in 煮豆燃萁

• 煮zhǔto cook; to boil
• 豆dòulegume; pulse; bean; pea (variant of 豆
• 燃ránto burn; to ignite; to light
• 萁qístalks of pulse

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