山窮水盡

See also: 山穷水尽

Chinese

		mountain; hill	exhausted; poor	water; river	to use up; to exhaust; to end to use up; to exhaust; to end; to finish; to the utmost; exhausted; finished; to the limit (of sth)
trad. (山窮水盡)		山	窮	水	盡
simp. (山穷水尽)		山	穷	水	尽
Literally: “the mountains run bare, and the streams run dry”.

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): shānqióngshuǐjìn

  (Zhuyin): ㄕㄢ ㄑㄩㄥˊ ㄕㄨㄟˇ ㄐㄧㄣˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): saan¹ kung⁴ seoi² zeon⁶

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: shānqióngshuǐjìn
    • Zhuyin: ㄕㄢ ㄑㄩㄥˊ ㄕㄨㄟˇ ㄐㄧㄣˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: shancyóngshuěijìn
    • Wade–Giles: shan¹-chʻiung²-shui³-chin⁴
    • Yale: shān-chyúng-shwěi-jìn
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shanchyongshoeijinn
    • Palladius: шаньцюншуйцзинь (šanʹcjunšujczinʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʂän⁵⁵ t͡ɕʰi̯ʊŋ³⁵ ʂu̯eɪ̯²¹⁴⁻²¹ t͡ɕin⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: saan¹ kung⁴ seoi² zeon⁶
    • Yale: sāan kùhng séui jeuhn
    • Cantonese Pinyin: saan¹ kung⁴ soey² dzoen⁶
    • Guangdong Romanization: san¹ kung⁴ sêu² zên⁶
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /saːn⁵⁵ kʰʊŋ²¹ sɵy̯³⁵ t͡sɵn²²/

Idiom

山窮水盡

1. having no more options; being at the end of one's rope; extremely desperate and hopeless

   我們已經山窮水盡，無法再去賭了 [MSC, trad.]
   我们已经山穷水尽，无法再去赌了 [MSC, simp.]

   wǒmen yǐjīng shānqióngshuǐjìn, wúfǎ zài qù dǔ le [Pinyin]

   We are already at the end of our rope, there's nothing left to risk.