痛楚
tòng chǔ
Pinyin
Definition
痛楚
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- pain
- anguish
- suffering
Character Decomposition
Idioms (16)
一清二楚
- 1 to be very clear about sth (idiom)
不痛不痒
- 1 lit. doesn't hurt, doesn't tickle (idiom); sth is wrong, but not quite sure what
- 2 fig. not getting to any matter of substance
- 3 scratching the surface
- 4 superficial
- 5 perfunctory
创巨痛深
- 1 untold pain and suffering (idiom); deeply scarred for life
吴头楚尾
- 1 lit. head in Wu and tail in Chu (idiom); fig. close together
- 2 head-to-tail
- 3 one thing starts where the other leaves off
四面楚歌
- 1 lit. on all sides, the songs of Chu (idiom)
- 2 fig. surrounded by enemies, isolated and without help