步履维艰 — Chinese idiom
步履维艰
bù lǚ wéi jiān
Traditional: 步履維艱
Meaning
- to have difficulty walking
- to walk with difficulty
Character by character
- 步bùwalk, stroll, pace, march; to make progress
- 履lǚshoes; to walk, to tread
- 维wéito preserve, to maintain, to hold together
- 艰jiāndifficult, hard; hardship
Idioms sharing a character
- 一步登天 yī bù dēng tiān
- 亦步亦趋 yì bù yì qū
- 安步当车 ān bù dàng chē
- 寸步不让 cùn bù bù ràng
- 寸步不离 cùn bù bù lí
- 寸步难行 cùn bù nán xíng
- 故步自封 gù bù zì fēng
- 昂首阔步 áng shǒu kuò bù
- 望而却步 wàng ér què bù
- 步履蹒跚 bù lǚ pán shān
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