暴虎冯河
bào hǔ píng hé · lit. fight tigers with one's bare hands and wade across raging rivers (idiom); fig. to display foolhardy courage
Character breakdown
Study each Hanzi separately, then return to the complete word so pronunciation, meaning, and movement stay connected.
How to learn 暴虎冯河
Listen once without reading, repeat the pinyin with its tones, then write every character in sequence. Finally, recall the complete meaning instead of memorizing each character as an isolated translation.
When the word appears in a sentence, check whether its part of speech and meaning match the definition shown here. Chinese words can change nuance with context.
Words with the same characters
Compare how a familiar Hanzi changes meaning inside another word.
river (CL:條|条[tiao2],道[dao4]); (bound form) the Yellow River; (bound form) the Milky Way; (bound form) (on restaurant menus) rice noodles 河粉[he2 fen3]
老虎lǎohǔtiger; CL:隻|只[zhi1]
暴雨bàoyǔtorrential rain; rainstorm; CL:場|场[chang2],陣|阵[zhen4]
河流héliúriver; CL:條|条[tiao2]
暴力bàolìviolence; force; violent
暴露bàolùto expose; to reveal; to lay bare; also pr. [pu4 lu4]