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愚公
yú​gōng

Foolish Old Man

Definitions Defs Origin Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents
  • 愚公移山 yú​gōng​yí​shān where there's a will, there's a way
    the old man moves the mountains; used to describe a person with great perseverance who is undeterred by hardships. The idiom refers to a fable in [[列子|列子|lie4 zi3]] about an old man who was determined to level the mountains blocking his door; his sincerity eventually moved the gods to remove them.