风烛残年

one's late days / to have one foot in the grave

Characters and words in 风烛残年

wind / news / style / custom / manner / CL:陣|阵[zhen4],絲|丝[si1]

= + : Frankenstein's Monster has to wait in front of the engine. Because the wind is blowing, he uses pliers to disassemble a small table and builds a shelter with the parts.
candle / (literary) to illuminate

= + : Julian Giant Squid (zhu) lights a candle (烛) just inside the space station's entrance (Ø2) and the mosquito (虫) instantly wants to fly right into the fire (火).
to destroy / to spoil / to ruin / to injure / cruel / oppressive / savage / brutal / incomplete / disabled / to remain / to survive / remnant / surplus

= + : The King of Chu (c) invited the wicked witch (歹) to try his floating tank (戋) in the anthill's kitchen (an2) and without waiting he pushed the wicked witch in and closed the lid. After a while he checked on her and found to only the complete tank, but also the wicked witch absolutely ruined (残).
surname Nian
year / CL:個|个[ge4]

= + + : Nefertiti (ni) is having lunch (午) in the anthill's kitchen (an2). Unfortunately they didn't have any cutlery left so she has to use a dinosaur bone (丨) and a flute (一) instead of fork and knife. It will take her a whole year (年) to finish her lunch this way.
grain / harvest (old) / variant of 年[nian2]

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