风烛残年 Save Sign in to save words Traditional (Taiwan): 風燭殘年 fēngzhúcánnián ㄈㄥ ㄓㄨˊ ㄘㄢˊ ㄋㄧㄢˊ one's late days to have one foot in the grave Character by character 风(fēng)wind 烛(zhú)candle 残(cán)destroy 年(nián)surname Nian A Chinese word or character, or English Search Sources CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0 pinyinjs, Apache-2.0