磨刀霍霍 Save Sign in to save words módāohuòhuò ㄇㄛˊ ㄉㄠ ㄏㄨㄛˋ ㄏㄨㄛˋ to sharpen one's sword (idiom) lit. to prepare to attack to be getting ready for battle fig. Character by character 磨(mó)rub 刀(dāo)surname Dao 霍(huò)surname Huo 霍(huò)surname Huo A Chinese word or character, or English Search Sources CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0 pinyinjs, Apache-2.0