暴虎馮河

暴虎冯河
bàohǔ-pínghé
  1. (figurative) bull-headed heroism
  2. bull-headed heroism

Wiktionary

Homographs

暴虎馮河 bàohǔpínghé
  1. lit. fight tigers with one's bare hands and wade across raging rivers (idiom)
  2. fig. to display foolhardy courage

Entry Composition

=1 暴 Bào surname Bao
=1 暴 bào
  1. sudden
  2. violent
  3. cruel
  4. to show or expose
  5. to injure
=1 暴 pù variant of 曝 pù
=1 暴 bó used in 暴樂／暴乐 (bóluò)
2 虎 hǔ tiger

classifier: 隻
=3 馮 Féng surname Feng
=3 馮 píng
  1. to gallop
  2. to assist
  3. to attack
  4. to wade
  5. great
  6. old variant of 憑 píng
=3 馮 féng
  1. a place near modern Luoyang
  2. a respelling of the German patronymic von
  3. a surname
4 河 hé
  1. (bound form) the Yellow River
  2. (bound form) the Milky Way
  3. (bound form) (on restaurant menus) rice noodles 河粉 héfěn

classifiers: 條, 道