吹燈拔蠟

ceoi1 dang1 bat6 laap6

lit. to blow out the lamp and put out the candle (idiom) · fig. to die · to bite the dust

2 Written Forms

Meanings

  1. lit. to blow out the lamp and put out the candle (idiom)
  2. fig. to die
  3. to bite the dust
  4. to be over and done with

Written Forms

吹燈拔蠟Traditional · Main Form
吹灯拔蜡Alternate Form

CC-Canto and the CC-CEDICT Cantonese readings are copyright (c) 2015-17 Pleco Software Incorporated, licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0. CC-CEDICT is copyright its maintainers, with portions from the original CEDICT database copyright (c) 1997, 1998 Paul Andrew Denisowski, licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0.

Filtered, regrouped by canonical lemma, and reformatted as an immutable web projection. Source gloss text is not rewritten.

View Source CC BY-SA 3.0