後院起火 Save Sign in to save words Simplified: 后院起火 hòuyuànqǐhuǒ ㄏㄡˋ ㄩㄢˋ ㄑㄧˇ ㄏㄨㄛˇ a conflict arises close to home (idiom) Character by character 後(hòu)back 院(yuàn)courtyard 起(qǐ)rise 火(huǒ)surname Huo A Chinese word or character, or English Search Sources CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0 pinyinjs, Apache-2.0