Read Edit View history 凿壁偷光 záobìtōuguāng to study diligently Origin Definitions Defs Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents Senses Add sense 凿壁偷光/ 鑿壁偷光 záobìtōuguāng (also zuòbìtōuguāng) to study diligently (idiom) to study very hard despite having no resources; based on a story of a poor student who bored a hole in the wall to use the neighbor's light Edit Delete References Add reference variant 凿壁偷光/鑿壁偷光 → 穿壁引光/穿壁引光 Edit Delete variant 凿壁偷光/鑿壁偷光 → 凿壁透光/鑿壁透光 Edit Delete same_as 穿壁引光/穿壁引光 → 凿壁偷光/鑿壁偷光 Edit Delete
凿壁偷光/ 鑿壁偷光 záobìtōuguāng (also zuòbìtōuguāng) to study diligently (idiom) to study very hard despite having no resources; based on a story of a poor student who bored a hole in the wall to use the neighbor's light Edit Delete