焚书坑儒 fén shū kēng rú

to burn the Confucian classics and bury alive the Confucian scholars (acts supposedly committed by the first emperor qín shǐ huáng)

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Definitions

  1. 1. to burn the Confucian classics and bury alive the Confucian scholars (acts supposedly committed by the first emperor qín shǐ huáng)

Characters

Character Meaning
to burn
book; to write; letter
hole; pit; to defraud
Confucian; scholar