created sense approved 千锤百炼/千錘百鍊 · qiānchuíbǎiliàn · carefully polished — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"
千锤百炼 / 千錘百鍊
qiānchuíbǎiliàn
carefully polished
Originally referring to the process of forging iron into steel, this idiom describes writing or a piece of art that has been revised and polished many times to achieve perfection.
千 (literal) → 千 · qiān · many 锤 (literal) → 锤/錘 · chuí · to hammer 百 (literal) → 百 · bǎi · numerous 炼 (literal) → 炼/煉 · liàn · to polish
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created sense approved 千锤百炼/千錘百鍊 · qiānchuíbǎiliàn · steeled by experience — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"
千锤百炼 / 千錘百鍊
qiānchuíbǎiliàn
steeled by experience
To be thoroughly tempered or steeled through a long period of hard work, trials, and the ups and downs of life.
千 (literal) → 千 · qiān · many 锤 (literal) → 锤/錘 · chuí · to hammer 百 (literal) → 百 · bǎi · numerous 炼 (literal) → 炼/煉 · liàn · to refine
Changed: simplified, traditional, gloss, definition, pinyin, variant pinyin, variants, separable parts, decomposition