孤注一掷 |
gū zhù yī zhì |
to stake all on one throw |
孤 |
gū |
lone / lonely |
注 |
zhù |
to inject / to pour into / to concentrate / to pay attention / stake (gambling) / classifier for sums of money / variant of 注 |
注 |
zhù |
to register / to annotate / note / comment |
一 |
yī |
one / single / a (article) / as soon as / entire; whole; all; throughout / "one" radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 1) / also pr. [yao1] for greater clarity when spelling out numbers digit by digit |
掷 |
zhì |
to toss / to throw dice / Taiwan pr. [zhi2] |