Read Edit View history Discussion 挑灯夜战 tiǎodēngyèzhàn to burn the midnight oil Origin Definitions Defs Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents 挑灯夜战 挑燈夜戰 tiǎodēngyèzhàn to burn the midnight oil to work or study late into the night; to continue a task by lamplight; originally to fight a battle at night by torchlight to party until dawn to stay up all night socializing or partying Frequency Written text 0.304 per million Sources Frequency data BCC Corpus (BLCU)
挑灯夜战 挑燈夜戰 tiǎodēngyèzhàn to burn the midnight oil to work or study late into the night; to continue a task by lamplight; originally to fight a battle at night by torchlight to party until dawn to stay up all night socializing or partying Frequency Written text 0.304 per million Sources Frequency data BCC Corpus (BLCU)