烈火莫熄

Chinese

		raging fire; inferno; blaze	do not; there is none who	(v) extinguish; quench; go out (of fire)
trad. (烈火莫熄)		烈火	莫	熄
simp. #(烈火莫熄)		烈火	莫	熄
Literally: “let the raging fire not be quenched”.

Etymology

Phono-semantic matching of Malay reformasi.

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): Lièhuǒmòxī, Lièhuǒmòxí

  (Zhuyin): ㄌㄧㄝˋ ㄏㄨㄛˇ ㄇㄛˋ ㄒㄧ, ㄌㄧㄝˋ ㄏㄨㄛˇ ㄇㄛˋ ㄒㄧˊ

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Mainland)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: Lièhuǒmòxī
    • Zhuyin: ㄌㄧㄝˋ ㄏㄨㄛˇ ㄇㄛˋ ㄒㄧ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: Lièhuǒmòsi
    • Wade–Giles: Lieh⁴-huo³-mo⁴-hsi¹
    • Yale: Lyè-hwǒ-mwò-syī
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: Liehhuoomohshi
    • Palladius: Лехомоси (Lexomosi)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /li̯ɛ⁵¹ xu̯ɔ²¹⁴⁻²¹ mu̯ɔ⁵¹ ɕi⁵⁵/
      
  • (Standard Chinese, Taiwan)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: Lièhuǒmòxí
    • Zhuyin: ㄌㄧㄝˋ ㄏㄨㄛˇ ㄇㄛˋ ㄒㄧˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: Lièhuǒmòsí
    • Wade–Giles: Lieh⁴-huo³-mo⁴-hsi²
    • Yale: Lyè-hwǒ-mwò-syí
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: Liehhuoomohshyi
    • Palladius: Лехомоси (Lexomosi)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /li̯ɛ⁵¹ xu̯ɔ²¹⁴⁻²¹ mu̯ɔ⁵¹ ɕi³⁵/

Proper noun

烈火莫熄

1. (Malaysia) Reformasi (protest movement in Malaysia)