后院起火

后
後
院
院
起
起
火
火
a conflict arises close to home (idiom)

Characters and words in 后院起火

后
hòu = h + ou4
empress / queen / (archaic) monarch / ruler
后
後
hòu = h + ou4
back / behind / rear / afterwards / after / later / post-
后 = ⺁ + 𠮛 : Mnemonic symbol: Zenobia, Queen of Palmyra. Zenobia (后) and Hamlet (h) want to bake banana bread in the outhouse's bathroom (ou4), but they don't know how. Behind (后) a banana tree (⺁) they study a scroll (𠮛) on which the recipe is written.
后
後
院
院
rear court / back garden / backyard (also fig.)
院
yuàn = yu + an4
courtyard / institution / CL:個|个[ge4]
院 = 完 + 阝 : The pope (阝) wants to join the cloister (寺院), but first he has to pass Yu the Great's (yu) test. He has to run as fast as he can from Vatikan City to the anthill's bathroom (an4), where the entrance to the cloister is. As he arrives at the bathroom huffing and puffing, Yu the Great is waving with a checkered flag.
起
qǐ = qi + Ø3
to rise / to raise / to get up / to set out / to start / to appear / to launch / to initiate (action) / to draft / to establish / to get (from a depot or counter) / verb suffix, to start / starting from (a time, place, price etc) / classifier for occurrences or unpredictable events: case, instance / classifier for groups: batch, group
起 = 己 + 走 : The Queen of Hearts is bored in the space station and plays a game involving a nordic walking pole and butcher's hooks. She uses the nordic walking pole to accelerate the hooks and fires them off once they have enough momentum.
起
火
to catch fire / to cook / to get angry
火
huǒ = hu + o3
fire / urgent / ammunition / fiery or flaming / internal heat (Chinese medicine) / hot (popular) / classifier for military units (old) / Kangxi radical 86
火 = 人 + 丶 : Helga Horse (hu) and Neanderthal Man (人) are starting a fire (火) in the observatory's living room (o3) with two large petals (丶).

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