威信掃地

威
威
信
信
扫
掃
地
地
to lose every scrap of reputation

Characters and words in 威信掃地

威
we̅i = w + ei1
power / might / prestige
威 = 女 + 戌 : Mnemonic symbol: James Clerk Maxwell, 马克斯威

Maxwell holds a special lecture in front of the Eiffel Tower, and his students are Bessie Coleman, Willie Walrus and a cute poodle. Maxwell spends a lot of time explaining the inverse power law of electrostatic forces.
威
信
Weixin county in Zhaotong 昭通[Zhao1 tong1], Yunnan
威
信
prestige / reputation / trust / credit with the people
信
xìn = xi + (e)n4
letter / mail / CL:封[feng1] / to trust / to believe / to profess faith in / truthful / confidence / trust / at will / at random
信 = 亻 + 言 : Marie Curie and Rosa Luxemburg are reading a letter of Karl Marx to the public in the encampment's bathroom. To make the message really come across to the people they use a megaphone.
扫
掃
sǎo = s + ao3
to sweep
扫 = 彐 + 扌 : Socrates (s) is sweeping the aorta (ao3) using a broom (扫). There are big pig snouts (彐) lying around on the floor which he picks up using a toy claw (扌) because they are too big to sweep (扫).
扫
掃
sào = s + ao4
broom
扫
掃
地
地
to sweep the floor / (fig.) (of one's reputation etc) to reach rock bottom / to be at an all-time low
地
de = d + e5
-ly / structural particle: used before a verb or adjective, linking it to preceding modifying adverbial adjunct
地
dì = di + Ø4
earth / ground / field / place / land / CL:片[pian4]
地 = 也 + 土 : Dorothy Gale (di) hates the cleanliness of the space station, so she used an excavator (也) in the space station's bathroom (Ø4) to dig a pile of dirt (土) out of the ground (地) for a mud bath.

Words with 威信掃地

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