引蛇出洞

引
蛇
出
洞
lit. to pull a snake from its hole / to expose a malefactor (idiom)

Characters and words in 引蛇出洞

引
yǐn = y + (e)n3
to draw (e.g. a bow) / to pull / to stretch sth / to extend / to lengthen / to involve or implicate in / to attract / to lead / to guide / to leave / to provide evidence or justification for / old unit of distance equal to 10 丈[zhang4], one-thirtieth of a km or 33.33 meters
引 = 丨 + 弓 : In the encampment, Maud Younger draws her composite bow. She wants to shoot a dinosaur bone straight across the hall.
蛇
虵
shé = sh + e2
variant of 蛇[she2]
蛇
shé = sh + e2
snake / serpent / CL:條|条[tiao2]
蛇 = 它 + 虫 : Sherlock Holmes (sh) is investigating the death of a mosquito (虫) in the elevator's kitchen (e2). He took a blood sample from the mosquito and analyzes it with his computer (它). It turns out that the mosquito stung the venomous snake (蛇) which is sleeping across the hall, and the venom killed the mosquito.
出
chu̅ = chu + Ø1
to go out / to come out / to occur / to produce / to go beyond / to rise / to put forth / to happen / (used after a verb to indicate an outward direction or a positive result) / classifier for dramas, plays, operas etc
出 = 屮 + 凵 : Mnemonic symbol: 出 tilted 90 degrees looks like "EE". "EE" is an abbreviation for "emergency exit". In front of the space station (Ø1) Chantal Chicken (chu) plugged her thornbush (屮) into a receptacle (凵), but it short circuited and immediately caught fire. Chantal has no option but to use the emergency exit (出) she came out of to go back into the space station.
出
齣
chu̅ = chu + Ø1
variant of 出[chu1] (classifier for plays or chapters of classical novels)
洞
dòng = du + (e)ng4
cave / hole / zero (unambiguous spoken form when spelling out numbers) / CL:個|个[ge4]
洞 = 同 + 氵 : Doggy Dog (du) finds two twins (同) have fallen down the cave (洞) in the engine's bathroom ((e)ng4). He immediately begins to dig a tunnel to bring them a bottle of water (氵) until more help arrives.

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