粵

焚fan4書syu1坑haang1儒jyu4

simp焚书坑儒
fan4 syu1 haang1 jyu4fén shū kēng rú

English

  1. to burn the Confucian classics and bury alive the Confucian scholars (acts supposedly committed by the first emperor 秦始皇[Qin2 Shi3 huang2])
  2. to burn books and kill scholars

粵語 — Cantonese

  1. 火燒書籍同埋坑殺儒生

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Sources: cc-cedict, words.hk

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