lit. to cross five passes and slay six generals (idiom); fig. to surmount all difficulties (on the way to success)
trad. 過五關斬六將
Also written 過五關斬六將【guò wǔ guān zhǎn liù jiàng】
Characters in this word
6过
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surname Guo
- Pinyin
- Guō
- Traditional
- 過
- Strokes
- 6
- Frequency
- 73 of 2500
五
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five, 5
- Pinyin
- wǔ
- Strokes
- 4
- Frequency
- 1999 of 2500
关
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surname Guan
- Pinyin
- Guān
- Traditional
- 關
- Strokes
- 6
- Frequency
- 1629 of 2500
斩
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to behead (as form of capital punishment), to chop
- Pinyin
- zhǎn
- Traditional
- 斬
- Strokes
- 8
- Frequency
- 11375 of 2500
六
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six, 6
- Pinyin
- liù
- Strokes
- 4
- Frequency
- 2812 of 2500
将
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will, shall, to use, to take, to checkmate, just a short while ago, (introduces object of main verb, used in the same way as 把[ba3])
- Pinyin
- jiāng
- Traditional
- 將
- Strokes
- 9
- Frequency
- 153 of 2500