Learning Chinese grows from characters to words and then idioms. We’ve created free tools to help you master idioms like 「嘔心滴血」, explained here.
This introduction highlights the idiom 「嘔心滴血」, with its meaning and examples explained below.
A metaphor for putting in a lot of thought. It is often used to describe the hard work involved in career, work, literary and artistic creation, etc. Same as “working hard”.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
ǒu xīn dī xuè
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
au2 sam1 dik6 hyut3
Chinese idioms, with their vast variety, hold different meanings and uses. Their abundance makes studying them rewarding, and these materials are here to help you along the way.
