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走火入魔

zǒu huǒ rù mó

4-character word

What 走火入魔 means

1. to be obsessed with sth; to go overboard
2. (Buddhism, Taoism) to misguidedly focus on hallucinations that arise during meditation

The characters in 走火入魔

• 走zǒuto walk; to go; to run
• 火huǒfire; urgent; ammunition
• 入rùto enter; to go into; to join; to become a member of; (bound form) to conform to (as in 入时
• 魔mó(bound form) evil spirit; devil; (prefix) supernatural; magical

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