千辛万苦 (千辛萬苦)
qiān xīn wàn kǔ
Pinyin
Definition
千辛万苦 (千辛萬苦)
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- to suffer untold hardships (idiom); trials and tribulations
- with difficulty
- after some effort
Character Decomposition
Related Words (20)
- 1 thousand
- 1 ten million
- 2 countless
- 3 many
- 4 one must by all means
- 1 bitter
- 2 hardship
- 3 pain
- 4 to suffer
- 5 to bring suffering to
- 6 painstakingly
- 1 forty-eighth year H12 of the 60 year cycle, e.g. 1971 or 2031
- 2 cf 辛亥革命[Xīn hài Gé mìng], Xinhai Revolution of 1911
Idioms (20)
一失足成千古恨
- 1 a single slip may cause everlasting sorrow (idiom)
一字千金
- 1 one word worth a thousand in gold (idiom)
- 2 (in praise of a piece of writing or calligraphy) each character is perfect
- 3 each word is highly valued
一掷千金
- 1 lit. stake a thousand pieces of gold on one throw (idiom); to throw away money recklessly
- 2 extravagant
一日千里
- 1 lit. one day, a thousand miles (idiom); rapid progress
一落千丈
- 1 lit. to drop a thousand zhang in one fall (idiom)
- 2 fig. (of business, popularity etc) to suffer a sudden, devastating decline
- 3 to take a dive