| 肝肠寸断 |
gān cháng cùn duàn |
lit. liver and guts cut to pieces (idiom) / fig. grief-stricken |
| 肝 |
gān |
liver (CL:叶) / (slang) to put in long hours, typically late into the night, playing (a video game) / (of a video game) involving a lot of repetition in order to progress; grindy |
| 肠 |
cháng |
intestines |
| 肠 |
cháng |
old variant of 肠 |
| 寸 |
cùn |
a unit of length / inch / thumb |
| 断 |
duàn |
to break / to snap / to cut off / to give up or abstain from sth / to judge / (usu. used in the negative) absolutely / definitely / decidedly |