| 卧薪尝胆 |
wò xīn cháng dǎn |
(lit.) to sleep on brushwood and taste gall (like King Goujian of Yue 勾践, in order to recall one's humiliations) (idiom) / (fig.) to maintain one's resolve for revenge |
| 卧薪尝胆 |
wò xīn cháng dǎn |
variant of 卧薪尝胆 |
| 卧 |
wò |
to lie / to crouch |
| 薪 |
xīn |
(literary) firewood; fuel / (bound form) salary |
| 尝 |
cháng |
to taste; to try (food) / to experience / (literary) ever; once |
| 尝 |
cháng |
to taste; to experience (variant of 尝) |
| 尝 |
cháng |
old variant of 尝 |
| 胆 |
dǎn |
gall bladder / courage / guts / gall / inner container (e.g. bladder of a football, inner container of a thermos) |