- lit. target of a multitude of arrows (idiom); the butt of public criticism
- attacked on all sides
Characters
- 众 (眾): abbr. for 眾議院|众议院[Zhong4 yi4 yuan4], House of Representatives
- 矢 (矢): arrow; dart; straight; to vow; to swear; old variant of 屎[shi3]
- 之 (之): (possessive particle, literary equivalent of 的[de5]); him; her; it
- 的 (的): of; ~'s (possessive particle); (used after an attribute); (used to form a nominal expression); (used at the end of a declarative sentence for emphasis); also pr. [di4] or [di5] in poetry and songs
Resources
- Wiktionary: 众矢之的
- MDBG: 众矢之的
- Examples with 众矢之的 on Tatoeba
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