十载寒窗
shí​zǎi​hán​chuāng

to study hard for many years

  • created sense approved 十载寒窗/十載寒窗 · shí​zǎi​hán​chuāng · to study hard for many years — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"

    十载寒窗 / 十載寒窗

    shí​zǎi​hán​chuāng

    to study hard for many years

    Used to describe a long period of diligent and difficult study, literally referring to ten years of studying by a cold window.

    shí​zài​hán​chuāng

    十 (literal) → 十 · shí · ten 载 (literal) → 载/載 · zǎi · year 寒窗 (literal) → 寒窗 · hán​chuāng · hard student life

    Changed: simplified, traditional, gloss, definition, pinyin, variant pinyin, variants, separable parts, decomposition

    created sense