刀光剑影 Save Create a free account to save words Traditional (Taiwan): 刀光劍影 dāoguāngjiànyǐng ㄉㄠ ㄍㄨㄤ ㄐㄧㄢˋ ㄧㄥˇ 男 女 lit. flash of knives and swords (idiom) fig. intense conflict Character by character 刀(dāo)knife 光(guāng)light 剑(jiàn)double-edged sword 影(yǐng)picture 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