chèn huǒ dǎ jié

趁火打劫 (chèn huǒ dǎ jié) is a Chinese word meaning “lit. to loot a burning house (idiom); fig. to take advantage of sb's misfortune”.

Meanings

  1. 1lit. to loot a burning house (idiom)
  2. 2fig. to take advantage of sb's misfortune

Characters in 趁火打劫

趁chèn · to avail oneself of火huǒ · fire打dá · (loanword) dozen劫jié · to rob

Related words

打(loanword) dozen打a semantically light, transitive verb that is combined with various grammatical objects to form compound verbs and verb-object phrases with a diverse range of meanings (e.g. 打傘|打伞[da3 san3] "to hold an umbrella", 打電話|打电话[da3 dian4 hua4] "to make a phone call", 打針|打针[da3 zhen1] "to get an injection", 打手套[da3 shou3 tao4] "to knit gloves", 打氣|打气[da3 qi4] "to inflate")打电话to make a telephone call打算to plan打开to open火fire火surname Huo打扰to disturb打赌to bet抢劫to rob火车train打败to defeat

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