四面八方
Meaning
From every direction; from all around. Describes people or things arriving from everywhere.
In a sentence
Visitors came from 四面八方 for the festival.
Usage note
Often paired with verbs of gathering or arriving.
Where you see it in Brain Challenge
This idiom appears in the picture-idiom levels as a picture or number clue. When the clue shows numbers, the digits usually become the first characters of each half of the idiom — that is why so many chengyu start with 一, 三, 五, 七, 九 or 十.