烈火莫熄

Chinese

raging fire; inferno; blaze do not; there is none who (v) extinguish; quench; go out (of fire)
trad. (烈火莫熄) 烈火
simp. #(烈火莫熄) 烈火
Literally: “let the raging fire not be quenched”.

Etymology

Phono-semantic matching of Malay reformasi.

Pronunciation

  • Mandarin
    (Pinyin): Lièhuǒmòxī, Lièhuǒmòxí
    (Zhuyin): ㄌㄧㄝˋ ㄏㄨㄛˇ ㄇㄛˋ ㄒㄧ, ㄌㄧㄝˋ ㄏㄨㄛˇ ㄇㄛˋ ㄒㄧˊ

Proper noun

烈火莫熄

  1. (Malaysia) Reformasi (protest movement in Malaysia)