barehanded

barehanded

Unarmed, Chinese idiom, Pinyin for SH ǒ UW ú C ù NR è n, means there is no weapon in hand. It's from Yi yuan.

The origin of Idioms

In the Southern Dynasty, Song Dynasty, Liu Jingshu's Yiyuan, Volume 10: "on the fourteenth day of the year of incense, he was unarmed and tied to the neck of the tiger, so he was free from abundance."

Analysis of Idioms

[synonym]: unarmed and [antonym]: Armed

Idiom usage

There is no weapon in hand. Example Ji Yun's notes on Yuewei thatched cottage - luanyang summer record in Qing Dynasty: "Shun court is unarmed, but he will be captured when his ears are removed."