兵临城下 Save Create a free account to save words Traditional (Taiwan): 兵臨城下 bīnglínchéngxià ㄅㄧㄥ ㄌㄧㄣˊ ㄔㄥˊ ㄒㄧㄚˋ 男 女 soldiers at the city walls (idiom) fig. at a critical juncture Character by character 兵(bīng)soldiers 临(lín)face 城(chéng)city walls 下(xià)down Sign up for a free account to save words and review them A Chinese word or character, or English Search Sources CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0 pinyinjs, Apache-2.0