頭懸梁，錐刺股

tau4 jyun4 loeng4 ，zeoi1 ci3 gu2

lit. with his head attached to a beam and stabbing his thigh with an awl (idiom) · fig. to study assiduously and tirelessly

2 Written Forms

Meanings

  1. lit. with his head attached to a beam and stabbing his thigh with an awl (idiom)
  2. fig. to study assiduously and tirelessly

Written Forms

頭懸梁，錐刺股Traditional · Main Form
头悬梁，锥刺股Alternate Form

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