雪上加霜
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Chinese[edit]
snow | up; on; on top up; on; on top; upon; first; previous or last; upper; higher; above; previous; to climb; to go into; to go up |
to add; plus | frost | ||
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trad. (雪上加霜) | 雪 | 上 | 加 | 霜 | |
simp. #(雪上加霜) | 雪 | 上 | 加 | 霜 | |
Literally: “to add frost on top of snow”. |
Pronunciation[edit]
Idiom[edit]
雪上加霜
- (figurative) to make a bad situation worse; to add insult to injury; to rub salt in the wound
Descendants[edit]
Korean[edit]
Hanja in this term | |||
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雪 | 上 | 加 | 霜 |
Noun[edit]
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