愁腸九轉
chóu​cháng​jiǔ​zhuǎn

weighed down with anxiety

  • created sense approved 愁肠九转/愁腸九轉 · chóu​cháng​jiǔ​zhuǎn · weighed down with anxiety — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"

    愁肠九转 / 愁腸九轉

    chóu​cháng​jiǔ​zhuǎn

    weighed down with anxiety

    deeply distressed or weighed down with anxiety, as if one's guts are twisted into knots. The number nine here is used to emphasize that the feeling is intense and recurring.

    愁肠 (literal) → 愁肠/愁腸 · chóu​cháng · pent-up sadness 九 (literal) → 九 · jiǔ · many 转 (literal) → 转/轉 · zhuǎn · to change

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

    created sense