if you ride a tiger, it's hard to get off (idiom); fig. impossible to stop halfway
trad. 騎虎難下
Also written 騎虎難下【qí hǔ nán xià】
Characters in this word
4骑
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(Tw) saddle horse, mounted soldier
- Pinyin
- jì
- Traditional
- 騎
- Strokes
- 11
- Frequency
- 2736 of 2500
虎
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tiger, CL:隻|只[zhi1]
- Pinyin
- hǔ
- Strokes
- 8
- Frequency
- 10628 of 2500
难
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difficult (to...), problem, difficulty, difficult, not good
- Pinyin
- nán
- Traditional
- 難
- Strokes
- 10
- Frequency
- 1327 of 2500
下
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down, downwards, below, lower, later, next (week etc), second (of two parts), to decline, to go down, to arrive at (a decision, conclusion etc), measure word to show the frequency of an action
- Pinyin
- xià
- Strokes
- 3
- Frequency
- 184 of 2500