lit. the pain of being hanged upside down (idiom); fig. extremely critical situation; dire straits
trad. 倒懸之苦
Also written 倒懸之苦【dào xuán zhī kǔ】
Characters in this word
4倒
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to fall; to collapse; to lie horizontally, to fail; to go bankrupt, to overthrow, to change (trains or buses), to move around, to resell at a profit
- Pinyin
- dǎo
- Strokes
- 10
- Frequency
- 578 of 2500
悬
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to hang or suspend, to worry, public announcement, unresolved, baseless, without foundation
- Pinyin
- xuán
- Traditional
- 懸
- Strokes
- 11
- Frequency
- 24857 of 2500
之
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(possessive particle, literary equivalent of 的[de5]), him, her, it
- Pinyin
- zhī
- Strokes
- 3
- Frequency
- 475 of 2500
苦
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bitter, hardship, pain, to suffer, to bring suffering to, painstakingly
- Pinyin
- kǔ
- Strokes
- 8
- Frequency
- 5535 of 2500