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秋后算账

qiū hòu suàn zhàng

4-character word Traditional 秋後算賬

What 秋后算账 means

1. lit. to settle accounts after autumn (idiom)
2. fig. to settle scores at an opportune time

The characters in 秋后算账

• 秋qiūautumn; fall; harvest time
• 后hòuempress; queen; (archaic) monarch
• 算suànto calculate; to figure out; to include; to count in; to count; to be valid…
• 账zhàngaccount; bill; debt

Sounds the same

Read qiū hòu suàn zhàng, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 秋后算帐lit. settle accounts after the autumn harvest (idiom)…