mountain and river exhausted (idiom); at the end of the line; nowhere to go
trad. 山窮水盡
Also written 山窮水盡【shān qióng shuǐ jìn】
Characters in this word
4山
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surname Shan
- Pinyin
- Shān
- Strokes
- 3
- Frequency
- 2411 of 2500
穷
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poor, destitute, to use up, to exhaust, thoroughly, extremely, (coll.) persistently and pointlessly
- Pinyin
- qióng
- Traditional
- 窮
- Strokes
- 7
- Frequency
- 9199 of 2500
水
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surname Shui, Shui ethnic group
- Pinyin
- Shuǐ
- Strokes
- 4
- Frequency
- 807 of 2500
尽
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to the greatest extent, (when used before a noun of location) furthest or extreme, to be within the limits of, to give priority to
- Pinyin
- jǐn
- Traditional
- 儘
- Strokes
- 6
- Frequency
- 2396 of 2500