lit. with his head attached to a beam and stabbing his thigh with an awl (idiom); fig. to study assiduously and tirelessly
trad. 頭懸梁，錐刺股
Also written 頭懸梁，錐刺股【tóu xuán liáng , zhuī cì gǔ】
Characters in this word
6头
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head, hair style, the top, end, beginning or end, a stub, remnant, chief, boss, side, aspect, first, leading, classifier for pigs or livestock, CL:個|个[ge4]
- Pinyin
- tóu
- Traditional
- 頭
- Strokes
- 5
- Frequency
- 773 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
梁
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Liang Dynasty (502–557), Later Liang Dynasty (907–923), surname Liang
- Pinyin
- Liáng
- Strokes
- 11
- Frequency
- 21662 of 2500
锥
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cone, awl, to bore
- Pinyin
- zhuī
- Traditional
- 錐
- Strokes
- 13
刺
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(onom.) whoosh
- Pinyin
- cī
- Strokes
- 8
- Frequency
- 4025 of 2500
股
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thigh, part of a whole; portion of a sum, (finance) stock; share, strand of a thread, low-level administrative unit, translated as "section" or "department" etc, ranked below 科[ke1], classifier for long winding things like ropes, rivers etc, classifier for smoke, smells etc: thread, puff, whiff, classifier for bands of people, gangs etc, classifier for sudden forceful actions
- Pinyin
- gǔ
- Strokes
- 8
- Frequency
- 12652 of 2500