杜鹃啼血 — Chinese idiom
杜鹃啼血
dù juān tí xuè
Traditional: 杜鵑啼血
Meaning
- lit. the cuckoo, after its tears are exhausted, continues by weeping blood
- fig. extreme grief
Character by character
- 杜dùto prevent, to restrict, to stop; surname
- 鹃juāncuckoo
- 啼títo weep, to whimper; to howl; to crow
- 血xuèblood
Idioms sharing a character
- 防微杜渐 fáng wēi dù jiàn
- 啼笑皆非 tí xiào jiē fēi
- 啼饥号寒 tí jī háo hán
- 一针见血 yī zhēn jiàn xiě
- 兵不血刃 bīng bù xuè rèn
- 含血喷人 hán xuè pēn rén
- 呕心沥血 ǒu xīn lì xuè
- 尸山血海 shī shān xuè hǎi
- 歃血为盟 shà xuè wéi méng
- 浴血奋战 yù xuè fèn zhàn
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