断港绝潢 — Chinese idiom
断港绝潢
duàn gǎng jué huáng
Traditional: 斷港絕潢
Meaning
- to be unable to continue
- to come to a dead end
Character by character
- 断duànto sever, to cut off, to interrupt
- 港gǎngport, harbor, bay; Hong Kong
- 绝juéto cut, to sever; to break off, to terminate
- 潢huángpond, lake
Idioms sharing a character
- 一刀两断 yī dāo liǎng duàn
- 伤筋断骨 shāng jīn duàn gǔ
- 割袍断义 gē páo duàn yì
- 多谋善断 duō móu shàn duàn
- 应机立断 yìng jī lì duàn
- 投鞭断流 tóu biān duàn liú
- 接连不断 jiē lián bù duàn
- 断壁残垣 duàn bì cán yuán
- 断章取义 duàn zhāng qǔ yì
- 断袖之癖 duàn xiù zhī pǐ
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