no room to advance or to retreat (idiom); at a loss; in a hopeless situation
trad. 進退失據
Also written 進退失據【jìn tuì shī jù】
Characters in this word
4进
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to go forward, to advance, to go in, to enter, to put in, to submit, to take in, to admit, (math.) base of a number system, classifier for sections in a building or residential compound
- Pinyin
- jìn
- Traditional
- 進
- Strokes
- 7
- Frequency
- 680 of 2500
退
Strokes: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0
to retreat; to withdraw, to reject; to return (sth), to decline
- Pinyin
- tuì
- Strokes
- 9
- Frequency
- 3835 of 2500
失
Strokes: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0
to lose, to miss, to fail
- Pinyin
- shī
- Strokes
- 5
- Frequency
- 7657 of 2500
据
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variant of 據|据[ju4]
- Pinyin
- jù
- Traditional
- 㨿
- Strokes
- 11
- Frequency
- 4393 of 2500