螢雪
yíng​xuě

diligent study

  • created reference approved 萤雪/螢雪 → 映雪囊萤/映雪囊螢 (see) — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"

    萤雪 / 螢雪 yíng​xuě

    映雪囊萤 / 映雪囊螢 yìng​xuě​náng​yíng

    see

    Changed: source (simp), source (trad), source pinyin, target (simp), target (trad), target pinyin, type

    created reference

  • created sense approved 萤雪/螢雪 · yíng​xuě · diligent study — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"

    萤雪 / 螢雪

    yíng​xuě

    diligent study

    (literary) to study diligently by the light of fireflies or reflected snow; based on the stories of Che Yin and Sun Kang, who were too poor to afford oil and studied by whatever light they could find

    萤 (literal) → 萤/螢 · yíng · firefly 雪 (literal) → 雪 · xuě · snow

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

    created sense