bào hǔ píng hé

Traditional: 暴虎馮河

暴虎冯河 (bào hǔ píng hé) is a Chinese word meaning “lit. fight tigers with one's bare hands and wade across raging rivers (idiom); fig. to display foolhardy courage”.

Meanings

  1. 1lit. fight tigers with one's bare hands and wade across raging rivers (idiom)
  2. 2fig. to display foolhardy courage

Characters in 暴虎冯河

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