恨铁不成钢 hèntiěbùchénggāng to be disappointed that someone falls short of expectations Definitions Defs Origin Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents 恨铁不成钢 恨鐵不成鋼 hèntiěbùchénggāng to be disappointed that someone falls short of expectations to feel frustrated or impatient that someone has failed to meet one's high expectations for their improvement; literally "to resent that iron does not turn into steel" Frequency Written text 0.494 per million Sources Frequency data BCC Corpus (BLCU)
恨铁不成钢 恨鐵不成鋼 hèntiěbùchénggāng to be disappointed that someone falls short of expectations to feel frustrated or impatient that someone has failed to meet one's high expectations for their improvement; literally "to resent that iron does not turn into steel" Frequency Written text 0.494 per million Sources Frequency data BCC Corpus (BLCU)
