头悬梁,锥刺股 (頭懸梁,錐刺股)
tóu xuán liáng , zhuī cì gǔ
Pinyin
Definition
头悬梁,锥刺股 (頭懸梁,錐刺股)
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- lit. with his head attached to a beam and stabbing his thigh with an awl (idiom)
- fig. to study assiduously and tirelessly
Character Decomposition
Related Words (20)
- 1 (onom.) whoosh
- 1 to provoke
- 2 to irritate
- 3 to upset
- 4 to stimulate
- 5 to excite
- 6 irritant
- 1 buttocks
- 2 bottom
- 3 butt
- 4 back part
- 1 venomous sting
- 1 thigh
- 2 part of a whole
- 3 portion of a sum
- 4 (stock) share
- 5 strand of a thread
- 6 low-level administrative unit, translated as "section" or "department" etc, ranked below 科[kē]
- 7 classifier for long winding things like ropes, rivers etc
- 8 classifier for smoke, smells etc: thread, puff, whiff
- 9 classifier for bands of people, gangs etc
- 10 classifier for sudden forceful actions
Idioms (20)
一不做,二不休
- 1 don't do it, or don't rest (idiom); either give up, or go through to the end
- 2 Since we started, we must carry it through whatever happens.
- 3 in for a penny, in for a pound
一人得道,鸡犬升天
- 1 lit. when a man achieves the Dao, his poultry and dogs rise to Heaven (idiom)
- 2 fig. to ride on sb else's success
- 3 Once one man gets a government position, all his cronies get in too
- 4 Once sb has cracked the problem, every Tom, Dick and Harry can do it
一个天南,一个地北
- 1 to live miles apart (idiom)
一传十,十传百
- 1 news pass quickly from mouth to mouth (idiom)
- 2 an infectious disease spreads quickly (old meaning)
一则以喜,一则以忧
- 1 happy on the one hand, but worried on the other (idiom)