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风中之烛

fēng zhōng zhī zhú

4-character word Traditional 風中之燭

What 风中之烛 means

1. lit. candle in the wind (idiom)
2. fig. (of sb's life) feeble
3. hanging on a thread

The characters in 风中之烛

• 风fēngwind; news; style
• 中zhōngwithin; among; in; middle; center; while (doing sth); during
• 之zhī(possessive particle, literary equivalent of 的; him; her
• 烛zhúcandle; (literary) to illuminate

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