肝肠寸断 — Chinese idiom
肝肠寸断
gān cháng cùn duàn
Traditional: 肝腸寸斷
Meaning
- lit. liver and guts cut to pieces
- fig. grief-stricken
Character by character
- 肝gānliver
- 肠chángintestines; emotions; sausage
- 寸cùninch; small, tiny
- 断duànto sever, to cut off, to interrupt
Idioms sharing a character
- 侠肝义胆 xiá gān yì dǎn
- 大动肝火 dà dòng gān huǒ
- 忠肝义胆 zhōng gān yì dǎn
- 披肝沥胆 pī gān lì dǎn
- 揪心扒肝 jiū xīn bā gān
- 肝胆相照 gān dǎn xiāng zhào
- 互诉衷肠 hù sù zhōng cháng
- 小肚鸡肠 xiǎo dù jī cháng
- 愁肠百结 chóu cháng bǎi jié
- 搜索枯肠 sōu suǒ kū cháng
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