to burn the candle at both ends (idiom); to labor under a double burden
trad. 蠟燭兩頭燒
Also written 蠟燭兩頭燒【là zhú liǎng tóu shāo】
Characters in this word
5蜡
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candle, wax
- Pinyin
- là
- Traditional
- 蠟
- Strokes
- 14
- Frequency
- 25145 of 2500
烛
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candle, (literary) to illuminate
- Pinyin
- zhú
- Traditional
- 燭
- Strokes
- 10
两
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two, both, some, a few, tael, unit of weight equal to 50 grams (modern) or 1⁄16 of a catty 斤[jin1] (old)
- Pinyin
- liǎng
- Traditional
- 兩
- Strokes
- 7
- Frequency
- 1703 of 2500
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
烧
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to burn; to set on fire, to heat (over a fire); to boil (water, tea etc), to braise, to cook; to prepare food, to run a fever, fever, (coll.) to become full of oneself; to get carried away
- Pinyin
- shāo
- Traditional
- 燒
- Strokes
- 10
- Frequency
- 2173 of 2500