愚公移山
yú​gōng​yí​shān HSK7

where there's a will, there's a way

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 liè​zǐ about an old man who was determined to level the mountains blocking his door; his sincerity eventually moved the gods to remove them.

Frequency
Movie subtitles
0.060 per million appears in 0% of films
Written text
0.962 per million

Details
HSK 3.0
Level 7

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Frequency data
SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)