千辛萬苦

See also: 千辛万苦

Chinese

		thousand	8th heavenly stem; tired	ten thousand; a great number; surname	bitter; intensely; miserable bitter; intensely; miserable; painful
trad. (千辛萬苦)		千	辛	萬	苦
simp. (千辛万苦)		千	辛	万	苦

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Standard)

  (Pinyin): qiānxīnwànkǔ

  (Zhuyin): ㄑㄧㄢ ㄒㄧㄣ ㄨㄢˋ ㄎㄨˇ

  (Chengdu, Sichuanese Pinyin): qian¹ xin¹ wan⁴ ku³

• Cantonese (Jyutping): cin¹ san¹ maan⁶ fu²
• Gan (Wiktionary): qien¹ xin¹ uan⁵ ku³
• Hakka (Meixian, Guangdong): qiên¹ xin¹ van⁴ ku³
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): chhian-sin-bān-khó͘

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: qiānxīnwànkǔ
    • Zhuyin: ㄑㄧㄢ ㄒㄧㄣ ㄨㄢˋ ㄎㄨˇ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: ciansinwànkǔ
    • Wade–Giles: chʻien¹-hsin¹-wan⁴-kʻu³
    • Yale: chyān-syīn-wàn-kǔ
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: chianshinwannkuu
    • Palladius: цяньсиньваньку (cjanʹsinʹvanʹku)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡ɕʰi̯ɛn⁵⁵ ɕin⁵⁵ wän⁵¹ kʰu²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/
  • (Chengdu)
    • Sichuanese Pinyin: qian¹ xin¹ wan⁴ ku³
    • Scuanxua Ladinxua Xin Wenz: kianxinwanku
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡ɕʰiɛn⁵⁵ ɕin⁵⁵ uan²¹³ kʰu⁵³/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: cin¹ san¹ maan⁶ fu²
    • Yale: chīn sān maahn fú
    • Cantonese Pinyin: tsin¹ san¹ maan⁶ fu²
    • Guangdong Romanization: qin¹ sen¹ man⁶ fu²
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sʰiːn⁵⁵ sɐn⁵⁵ maːn²² fuː³⁵/
• Gan
  • (Nanchang)
    • Wiktionary: qien¹ xin¹ uan⁵ ku³
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡ɕʰiɛn⁴² ɕin⁴² uan¹¹ kʰu²¹³/
• Hakka
  • (Meixian)
    • Guangdong: qiên¹ xin¹ van⁴ ku³
    • Sinological IPA: /t͡sʰiɛn⁴⁴ sin⁴⁴⁻³⁵ ʋan⁵³⁻⁵⁵ kʰu³¹/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chhian-sin-bān-khó͘
    • Tâi-lô: tshian-sin-bān-khóo
    • Phofsit Daibuun: chiensinbaxnqor
    • IPA (Xiamen): /t͡sʰiɛn⁴⁴⁻²² sin⁴⁴⁻²² ban²²⁻²¹ kʰɔ⁵³/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /t͡sʰiɛn³³ sin³³ ban⁴¹⁻²² kʰɔ⁵⁵⁴/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /t͡sʰiɛn⁴⁴⁻²² sin⁴⁴⁻²² ban²²⁻²¹ kʰɔ⁵³/
    • IPA (Taipei): /t͡sʰiɛn⁴⁴⁻³³ sin⁴⁴⁻³³ ban³³⁻¹¹ kʰɔ⁵³/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /t͡sʰiɛn⁴⁴⁻³³ sin⁴⁴⁻³³ ban³³⁻²¹ kʰɔ⁴¹/

Idiom

千辛萬苦

1. suffering untold hardships; trials and tribulations

   • 不容易深切了解我國人民曾經怎樣經歷千辛萬苦的鬥爭才擺脫了帝國主義和國民黨反動派的壓迫 [MSC, trad.]
     不容易深切了解我国人民曾经怎样经历千辛万苦的斗争才摆脱了帝国主义和国民党反动派的压迫 [MSC, simp.]

     From: 1957, 毛澤東 (Mao Zedong), 《關於正確處理人民內部矛盾的問題》 (On the Correct Handling of Contradictions Among the People), 《毛澤東選集》. English translation based on the Foreign Languages Press edition

     bù róngyì shēnqiè liǎojiě wǒguó rénmín céngjīng zěnyàng jīnglì qiānxīnwànkǔ de dòuzhēng cái bǎituō le dìguó zhǔyì hé Guómíndǎng fǎndòngpài de yāpò [Pinyin]

     it is not easy for them thoroughly to comprehend the hardships our people went through in the struggle to free themselves from the oppression of the imperialists and Kuomintang reactionaries