千辛万苦

千辛萬苦
qiānxīnwànkǔ
idiom #24,895

Meanings

  1. 1 to suffer untold hardships
  2. 2 to go through great trials and tribulations
  3. 3 with enormous effort and difficulty

Examples

Tā qiānxīnwànkǔ de bǎ háizi fǔyǎng chéngrén.
He raised the child through countless hardships.
Jīngguò qiānxīnwànkǔ, tāmen zhōngyú dàodá le mùdìdì.
After enormous hardships, they finally reached their destination.

Tips

memory
Remember it as '1000 hardships (), 10,000 sufferings ().' (thousand) and (ten thousand) are hyperbolic numbers that appear in many Chinese idioms to mean 'countless.' and are near-synonyms both meaning hardship/bitterness.

Stroke Order

qiān
xīn
wàn