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风口浪尖

fēng kǒu làng jiān

4-character word Traditional 風口浪尖

What 风口浪尖 means

1. where the wind and the waves are the fiercest
2. at the heart of the struggle

The characters in 风口浪尖

• 风fēngwind; news; style
• 口kǒumouth; classifier for things with mouths (people, domestic animals, cannons, wells etc)…
• 浪làngwave; breaker; unrestrained
• 尖jiānpointed; tapering; sharp; (of a sound) shrill; piercing…

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