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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qiān xīn wàn kǔ
  1. to suffer untold hardships (idiom); trials and tribulations
  2. with difficulty
  3. after some effort

Character Decomposition

Related Words (20)

qiān
  1. 1 thousand
qiān wàn
  1. 1 ten million
  2. 2 countless
  3. 3 many
  4. 4 one must by all means
tòng kǔ
  1. 1 pain
  2. 2 suffering
  3. 3 painful
  4. 4 classifier: 个 gè
  1. 1 bitter
  2. 2 hardship
  3. 3 pain
  4. 4 to suffer
  5. 5 to bring suffering to
  6. 6 painstakingly
xīn hài
  1. 1 forty-eighth year H12 of the 60 year cycle, e.g. 1971 or 2031
  2. 2 cf 辛亥革命[Xīn hài Gé mìng], Xinhai Revolution of 1911

Idioms (20)

一失足成千古恨
yī shī zú chéng qiān gǔ hèn
  1. 1 a single slip may cause everlasting sorrow (idiom)
一字千金
yī zì qiān jīn
  1. 1 one word worth a thousand in gold (idiom)
  2. 2 (in praise of a piece of writing or calligraphy) each character is perfect
  3. 3 each word is highly valued
一掷千金
yī zhì qiān jīn
  1. 1 lit. stake a thousand pieces of gold on one throw (idiom); to throw away money recklessly
  2. 2 extravagant
一日千里
yī rì qiān lǐ
  1. 1 lit. one day, a thousand miles (idiom); rapid progress
一落千丈
yī luò qiān zhàng
  1. 1 lit. to drop a thousand zhang in one fall (idiom)
  2. 2 fig. (of business, popularity etc) to suffer a sudden, devastating decline
  3. 3 to take a dive