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锒铛入狱

láng dāng rù yù

4-character word Traditional 鋃鐺入獄

What 锒铛入狱 means

1. lit. to get shackled and thrown in jail (idiom)
2. fig. to be put behind bars
3. to get jailed

The characters in 锒铛入狱

• 锒lángchain; ornament
• 铛chēngfrying pan; griddle
• 入rùto enter; to go into; to join; to become a member of; (bound form) to conform to (as in 入时
• 狱yùprison

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