破釜沉舟

po3 fu2 cam4 zau1

lit. to break the cauldrons and sink the boats (idiom); fig. to cut off one's means of retreat · to burn one's boats

Meanings

  1. lit. to break the cauldrons and sink the boats (idiom); fig. to cut off one's means of retreat
  2. to burn one's boats

CC-Canto and the CC-CEDICT Cantonese readings are copyright (c) 2015-17 Pleco Software Incorporated, licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0. CC-CEDICT is copyright its maintainers, with portions from the original CEDICT database copyright (c) 1997, 1998 Paul Andrew Denisowski, licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0.

Filtered, regrouped by canonical lemma, and reformatted as an immutable web projection. Source gloss text is not rewritten.

View Source CC BY-SA 3.0