铁砚磨穿
tiě​yàn​mó​chuān

to study with diligence

  • created sense approved 铁砚磨穿/鐵硯磨穿 · tiě​yàn​mó​chuān · to study with diligence — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"

    铁砚磨穿 / 鐵硯磨穿

    tiě​yàn​mó​chuān

    to study with diligence

    To study with persistent and extraordinary effort; literally to wear through an iron inkstone through years of hard work.

    铁 (literal) → 铁/鐵 · tiě · iron 砚 (literal) → 砚/硯 · yàn · inkstone 磨 (literal) → 磨 · mó · to rub 穿 (literal) → 穿 · chuān · to pierce

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

    created sense