千锤百炼
qiān chuí bǎi liàn
Pinyin

Definition

千锤百炼
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qiān chuí bǎi liàn
  1. after hard work and numerous revisions (idiom)
  2. the vicissitudes of life

Character Decomposition

Related Words (20)

一呼百应
yī hū bǎi yìng
  1. 1 a hundred answers to a single call (idiom)
  2. 2 to respond en masse
千
qiān
  1. 1 thousand
千万
qiān wàn
  1. 1 ten million
  2. 2 countless
  3. 3 many
  4. 4 one must by all means
千军万马
qiān jūn wàn mǎ
  1. 1 magnificent army with thousands of men and horses (idiom); impressive display of manpower
  2. 2 all the King's horses and all the King's men
百
Bǎi
  1. 1 surname Bai
百度
Bǎi dù
  1. 1 Baidu, Internet portal and search engine, www.baidu.com, listed as BIDU on NASDAQ since 1999
百万
bǎi wàn
  1. 1 million
  2. 2 millions
二百五
èr bǎi wǔ
  1. 1 idiot
  2. 2 stupid person
  3. 3 a dope
千亿
qiān yì
  1. 1 myriads
  2. 2 hundred billion
千千万万
qiān qiān wàn wàn
  1. 1 lit. by the thousands and tens of thousands (idiom); untold numbers
  2. 2 innumerable
  3. 3 thousands upon thousands
千古
qiān gǔ
  1. 1 for all eternity
  2. 2 throughout all ages
千岛湖
Qiān dǎo Hú
  1. 1 Qiandao Lake in Zhejiang, aka Xin'an River Reservoir, created as part of a large hydroelectric project in 1959
千年
qiān nián
  1. 1 millennium
千方百计
qiān fāng bǎi jì
  1. 1 lit. thousand ways, a hundred plans (idiom); by every possible means
千疮百孔
qiān chuāng bǎi kǒng
  1. 1 see 百孔千瘡|百孔千疮[bǎi kǒng qiān chuāng]
千篇一律
qiān piān yī lu:4
  1. 1 thousand articles, same rule (idiom); stereotyped and repetitive
  2. 2 once you've seen one, you've seen them all
千言万语
qiān yán wàn yǔ
  1. 1 thousands of words (idiom); having a lot of things to say
  2. 2 talking nonstop
千辛万苦
qiān xīn wàn kǔ
  1. 1 to suffer untold hardships (idiom); trials and tribulations
  2. 2 with difficulty
  3. 3 after some effort
千金
qiān jīn
  1. 1 thousand jin 斤 (pounds) of gold
  2. 2 money and riches
  3. 3 (honorific) invaluable (support)
  4. 4 (honorific) daughter
大千世界
dà qiān shì jiè
  1. 1 great wide world
  2. 2 marvelously diverse world
  3. 3 (Buddhism) cosmos (abbr. for 三千大千世界[sān qiān dà qiān shì jiè])

Idioms (20)

一传十，十传百
yī chuán shí , shí chuán bǎi
  1. 1 news pass quickly from mouth to mouth (idiom)
  2. 2 an infectious disease spreads quickly (old meaning)
一呼百应
yī hū bǎi yìng
  1. 1 a hundred answers to a single call (idiom)
  2. 2 to respond en masse
一呼百诺
yī hū bǎi nuò
  1. 1 one command brings a hundred responses (idiom); having hundreds of attendants at one's beck and call
一失足成千古恨
yī shī zú chéng qiān gǔ hèn
  1. 1 a single slip may cause everlasting sorrow (idiom)
一字千金
yī zì qiān jīn
  1. 1 one word worth a thousand in gold (idiom)
  2. 2 (in praise of a piece of writing or calligraphy) each character is perfect
  3. 3 each word is highly valued
一掷千金
yī zhì qiān jīn
  1. 1 lit. stake a thousand pieces of gold on one throw (idiom); to throw away money recklessly
  2. 2 extravagant
一日千里
yī rì qiān lǐ
  1. 1 lit. one day, a thousand miles (idiom); rapid progress
一落千丈
yī luò qiān zhàng
  1. 1 lit. to drop a thousand zhang in one fall (idiom)
  2. 2 fig. (of business, popularity etc) to suffer a sudden, devastating decline
  3. 3 to take a dive
一言千金
yī yán qiān jīn
  1. 1 one word worth a thousand in gold (idiom); valuable advice
  2. 2 words of enormous weight
一诺千金
yī nuò qiān jīn
  1. 1 a promise worth one thousand in gold (idiom); a promise that must be kept
一通百通
yī tōng bǎi tōng
  1. 1 grasp this fundamental point and all the rest will follow (idiom)
三百六十行
sān bǎi liù shí háng
  1. 1 all walks of life (idiom)
  2. 2 every trade
五十步笑百步
wǔ shí bù xiào bǎi bù
  1. 1 the one who has retreated 50 steps laughs at the one who has retreated 100 steps (idiom)
  2. 2 the pot calls the kettle black
五百年前是一家
wǔ bǎi nián qián shì yī jiā
  1. 1 five hundred years ago we were the same family (idiom) (said of persons with the same surname)
信心百倍
xìn xīn bǎi bèi
  1. 1 brimming with confidence (idiom)
十年树木，百年树人
shí nián shù mù , bǎi nián shù rén
  1. 1 It takes ten years to nurture a tree, but a hundred years to train a man (idiom). A good education program takes a long time to develop.
千依百顺
qiān yī bǎi shùn
  1. 1 totally submissive (idiom)
千千万万
qiān qiān wàn wàn
  1. 1 lit. by the thousands and tens of thousands (idiom); untold numbers
  2. 2 innumerable
  3. 3 thousands upon thousands
千古罪人
qiān gǔ zuì rén
  1. 1 sb condemned by history (idiom)
千古遗恨
qiān gǔ yí hèn
  1. 1 to have eternal regrets (idiom)

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