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映月讀書
yìng​yuè​dú​shū

to study by moonlight

Origin Definitions Defs Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents
映月读书 映月讀書 yìng​yuè​dú​shū
to study by moonlight
To study hard despite poverty; based on the story of Jiang Mi who, being too poor to afford lamps, used the light of the moon to read at night.
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