洪水猛獸 Save Sign in to save words Simplified: 洪水猛兽 hóngshuǐměngshòu ㄏㄨㄥˊ ㄕㄨㄟˇ ㄇㄥˇ ㄕㄡˋ lit. severe floods and fierce beasts (idiom) fig. great scourges extremely dangerous or threatening things Character by character 洪(hóng)surname Hong 水(shuǐ)surname Shui 猛(měng)ferocious 獸(shòu)beast A Chinese word or character, or English Search Sources CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0 pinyinjs, Apache-2.0